Administrative decay?

From: Tony Beresford (dberesford@adam.com.au)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 07:34:33 EDT

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    Checking thru satellite decay information on OIG,
today, \tTo show that reported meteorite fall in India 
couldnt be a satellite re-entry, I came across these
TLEs for the J component of the Russian launch of a
day or to ago.
UNK    Decayed: 2003/09/28
1 27947U 03042J   03271.34319539  .00037587  00000-0  74115-2 0    23
2 27947  98.2049 157.7789 0012589 218.7623 140.3366 14.62283091   178
UNK    Decayed: 2003/09/28
1 27947U 03042J   03271.00123707 -.00000051  00000-0  00000+0 0    11
2 27947  98.1957 157.5025 0066492 208.8773 151.7967 14.62296867   127

This could only be either a controlled re-entry or an administrative
decay to correct a wrongly catalogued object couldnt it?
The elements show an orbit a long way from decay !
Tony Beresford


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