Decay Forecast Phobos-Grunt

From: Harro Zimmer (Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2011 - 20:56:00 UTC

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     2011-065A (#37872)  Phobos-Grunt
    
    Here the first forecast based on the
    Special Perturbation theory and the 11
    ELSETs 11353.14... - 11355.50...
    SFX and Ap comes from the NOAA 27-day
    Space Weather Outlook issued Dec 20, 2011.
    
    With a modified Jacchia density model
    (US STRATCOM version) I see the decay  on
    
    14 January 2012, 20:07 UTC +/- 2.5 days
    
    Accurate predictions depend strongly from
    the density model. For example the Jacchia -
    Lineberry model used by NASA today shows
    the decay on
    
    14 January  2012, 00:45 UTC +/- 2.5 days
    
    I think this is in good agreement with Teds
    very careful and helpful daily analysis with
    the STOAG - semi-analytic  program.
    
    Remark:
    My estimated uncertainty is an "internal"
    output value.
    
    Harro
    
    Harro Zimmer  - Berlin (Germany)
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