Re: Cosmos-2313 explosion?
Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sat, 28 Jun 1997 11:12:29 +0200
>It seems, something happend with Cosmos-2313 (1995-028A)
>since two dozen of pieces associated with this object are tracking by SpaceCom.
>Probably, this object may be intersting for visual observing due to
>it's big dimensions and irregular form (if it had exploded) prior to
>it's natural decay. Here is some TLEs for 23596 and new objects.
>Excuse me for the long message but I think some of SeeSat members may
>not have these elemenents and this information is of general interest.
>
>Best regards,
> Vladimir Agapov.
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I checked my own Mean Motion chart for #23596, linked from my hom page:
http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/gif/23596.gif
Indeed, there is a large MM increase on day 97125 (May 04) which might
be connected to the debris generation. I had previously attributed
this to the propulsion system, which seems to have caused some changes
after the 15.8 MM change.
Most of the fragments, for which Vladimir Agapov posted elsets, have
quite high drag terms, so it will be difficult to check if the orbits
do meet the 97125 orbit for #23596 on that day.
But no other major event is shown on a later version of the MM plot.
>
>1 23596U 95028A 97177.59923768 .00268216 69429-5 28664-3 0 6131
>2 23596 65.0314 336.6235 0080400 234.5433 124.8214 16.03208485116546
>
>1 80200U 95028 97177.54940070 .06645770 45625-1 48595-1 0 18
>2 80200 64.9215 337.0270 0158331 137.6275 225.4741 15.62386954 07
...
>1 80218U 95028 97177.97149679 -.04514225 71068-5 -38369-2 0 24
>2 80218 65.0537 335.1628 0074501 241.6758 117.6416 16.07088345 70
>
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