In message <S32cGwM0OOJrzF5ldfZ0000d749@smtp02.iprimus.net.au>, Tony Beresford <starman@camtech.net.au> writes >In IOD format >25034 96 068A 8597 F 20010419120326100 27 25 0845400-545000 48 S+070 05 >25034 96 068A 8597 F 20010419120351000 27 25 0902700-524200 48 S+070 05 > >the object was again fainter than I expect for this object. >It was also only 2min 45 seconds later for same sky position. This >is considerably smaller than the 4min + for a true geosync molniya >I suspect it may be another object, or something drastic has happened to >it some time towards first week in April. >Tony Beresford Tony, following your previous night's obs I propagated Mike's last elset forward to April 6 using his INT2 programme, then knocked .0025 off mean motion and ran predictions for last night (18/19 UT). I found it very close to the predicted position and at the usual brightness. Its ground track is now drifting westwards and I guess it will move down again sometime to stabilise the track at some new longitude. Please continue to observe it as often as possible. Although there was some cloud around I failed to find the older Trumpet 94 026A which was due shortly after. I hope that one has not manoeuvred too. They have both been operating with equator crossings near 20/200 degrees so I thought this might be their preferred operating tracks. This seemed a good starting point to look for the missing Trumpet 95 034A following Ted's message of a few months ago but, so far, no success. -- Peter Wakelin COSPAR 2018, GUNDLETON, Lat 51.0945N, Long 1.1188W, 124m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Apr 19 2001 - 10:08:18 PDT