USA 116, possible obs.

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:32:09 +0200

I failed to see USA 86 with the following elsets, searching 3 minutes
before the first one to 3 minutes after the Molczan one.
>USA 86 A
>1 22251U 92083A   97103.06274143  .00000424  00000-0  29496-4 0    12
>2 22251  97.7702 197.5086 0424030  32.5807 330.0811 14.54733086 27356
>USA 86 Molczan
>1 22251U 92083  A 97103.06718094  .00000333  00000-0  22849-4 0    11
>2 22251  97.7786 197.7505 0421522  33.9341 328.8071 14.54668467 27763

After searching for USA 116 for only 22 minutes, I saw an object
on the expected track at 21:53:57 UTC on Apr.12, just left of Lyra.
At 21:54:35 it was at RA 21.20 h, dec.+48.3 deg.
Interpolating between my F and G orbits to fit the time, the predicted
track was just 0.6 degrees below the observed point, and the distance
travelled in the 38 seconds is correct to within 10 %.
No object predicted brighter than +8 (this was about 6) from cs930327
matches the track well enough.

USA 116 0412
1 23728U 95066  A 97103.03741000  .00010255  00000-0  10529-3 0    11
2 23728  97.8720 214.2322 0540270  11.1163 350.1133 14.74043466 28155

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