Anomalous Satellite Drag and the Green-Line Corona

Abstract

Satellite drag data for Skylab from Headquarters Aerospace Defense Command are compared with solar lamda 5303 Angstrom Fe XIV coronal scans from Sacramento Peak Observatory. During a short period in late 1977 and early 1978 there appears to be a distinct anti-correlation of anomalous drag with coronal intensity inferred at the center of the solar disk approximately two days earlier. The relation appeared at a time of a stable intensity pattern near the solar equator and evidently disappeared as the stable intensity pattern disappeared.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA091333

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  • Richard C. Altrock

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  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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