Milstar 6 Centaur Observed

From: Michael McCants (mmccants@jump.net)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 19:15:11 EDT

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    I posted two days ago:

>It was tumbling from magnitude 9 to 10 with
>a period of 2.74 seconds.

Last night the tumple period was down to 1.77 seconds.

Elset from observations:

Milstar 6 Cr  
1 27712U 03012B   03101.57025979 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    07
2 27712   3.7100 306.6070 0001000 222.0370 137.9733  1.00582000    00

Before finding the rocket, I was suprised by Molniya 1-90 going
north to south at only 6000 miles.  When looking for the payload,
I tracked 92 84B, Superbird A1 Rocket at 17000 miles for a little
while before realizing that it was not near-geosynchronous.

Mike McCants
Austin, TX

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