Russell Eberst posted: >The following observations are of an unidentified sat, with approx >elements: >Inclination 98 degs: Revs/day 14.6: R.A. of node 175 degs I have derived the following elset: Unknown 1 99999U 00095.88786884 .00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 08 2 99999 98.6000 172.6000 0000100 .0001 359.9999 14.59000000 00 Perhaps it will be within 2 minutes (early or late) of this elset after 24 hours. I wonder if it might match one of Mike Waterman's 98 degree unknowns? David Brierley posted: >I've made a perfect fit of a circular orbit to your observations, and >come up with the following more precise orbit: > > 0009501 00095.88789851 0.00000000 > 98.5830 172.5676 0.0000100 357.2183 2.9264 14.59164421 6.0 This elset is essentially the same as mine. Ed Light posted: >Can anyone point to a program one can use to convert elements from this >format to the more conventional TLE layout? Not that I know of. David does not post his elements often enough, so there has not been much incentive to write a program when one can use a text editor for 1 minute to do one elset. 1 99999U 00095.88789851 .00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 05 2 99999 98.5830 172.5676 0000100 357.2183 2.9264 14.59164421 04 >(Absent that, might one please >describe the meanings of the individual fields in the above format? ) > 0009501 00095.88789851 0.00000000 These are the line 1 values. "0009501" is the designation that Russell used. But "2000 95 A" does not seem like a good choice to me. :-) 00095.88789851 is the epoch. 0.00000000 is the drag term. > 98.5830 172.5676 0.0000100 357.2183 2.9264 14.59164421 6.0 These are the line 2 values. What is that "6.0" out there on the end? An intrinsic magnitude? Yes, that would make sense. Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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