The 1996 Cosmos 2335 RB Decay

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Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de

Ted Molczan's impressive and fascinating analysis of the
Cosmos 2335 RB ('#24671) on Dec 12, 1996 stimulated me
to investigate the case with my special perturbation decay
program.,
Based on the ELSETs 96346.926... - 96347.110...
(SFX 81, AP 09) and the propagator NRL-MSISE-00
the results are
Altitude 80 km ; Dec 12, 1996  : 04:25:30 UTC
Altitude 10 km                         :  04:31:06 UTC

The visibility conditions for 3  reported observation locations
are also in good agreement with Ted's results. The differences
in time and altitudes are only in the order of a few seconds and 
a few degrees. Ted had the kindness to store my relevant data runs
 in the SeeSat reference archive. Here the links:

http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/96069B/Cosmos_2335_RB_Run_1_Decay_Path.txt

http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/96069B/C_2335_RB_Run_1_FOX4_and_5.txt

http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/96069B/C_2335_RB_Run_1_Pelly_Crossing.txt

http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/96069B/C_2335_RB_Run_1_Mayo.txt

It is nice to see that the two quite different approaches delivers
nearly
identical  results.

Harro

Harro Zimmer   Berlin (Germany)
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