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RE: Reentry of Interbol 1
>From the keyboard, it's one digit at a time.
But looking at your e-mail address, I almost think you're putting us on:
"BOWEN, SCOTT M. (JSC-CC)" <scott.m.bowen1@jsc.nasa.gov>
At 10:45 AM 9/1/00 -0500, new guy wrote:
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>At the risk of sounding like a total new guy...
>
>Can someone tell me how to input a 2 line keps file into Winorbit?
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>Thanks,
>
>Scott Bowen
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Viktor Kudielka [mailto:viktor.kudielka@ieee.org]
><mailto:[mailto:viktor.kudielka@ieee.org]>
>Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 08:53 AM
>To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org <mailto:amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
>Subject: [amsat-bb] Reentry of Interbol 1
>
>To all interested in celestial mechanics:
>
>Interbol 1 (1995-039A) is a Russian scientific satellite, started
>on August 2, 1995 from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in an highly inclined
>(63.8 degrees), highly elliptic (0.93) orbit with a period of
>about 91 hours (height of apogee 192000 km).
>The initial height of perigee was around 500 km, increasing more
>or less steadily over 3 years to nearly 25000 km (no typing error!)
>and then decreasing again.
>Currently (September 1, 2000, orbit 490) height of perigee is
>slightly above 1400 km.
>We could see during the latest orbits from one perigee to the next
>no change at all as well as changes by - 400 km.
>There will be only 12 (+/- 1) more perigee passes, and reentry will
>probably be on October 16.
>You can find the NORAD two line elements for Interbol 1 in
>http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/science.txt
><http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/science.txt>
>Don't be worried by the odd orbit number 1717, which didn't change for
>the last two or three months.
> Have fun. Vy 73,
> Viktor, OE1VKW
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