Re: Debris count

From: George Olshevsky (george.olshevsky@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2007 - 14:38:48 EDT

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On 9/25/07, Leo Barhorst <leo.barhorst@tele2.nl> wrote:
> The large number of debris from 1999-25 and 1999-57 prompted me
> to make a Excelroutine that after entering the fragment characters it
> returns the fragmentnumber.
> A bias value is entered to deal with the 'normal' pieces of a launch.
>
> 1999-25CWT is #2246 (4 regular pieces)
> 1999-57 QZ is #383 (2 regular pieces, but fragment LY is double)
>
> Anyone interested in the small Excel routine please send me an email
> and I'll mail it to you.


This might save me a little hand-calculator work from time to time! I
just calculated the same number independently, so I can still do
simple arithmetic.

I don't think LY is doubled any more. There's just one LY, #26751. The
other number may have been reassigned.

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