Rob McNaught observed this satellite from Siding Spring Observatory last night ( local time) This psuedo MPEC includes the observations and an orbit using Bill Gray's FIND_ORB Can any list member suggest an identification. I have used SAT_ID with to no effect. The residuals from the orbit determination are large compared with what you would expect for the equipment, but this is probably beacause the points are all the end of trails Rob also adds the following note. "There was a rather brighter sat nearby with similar angular motion, but different PA. It was flashing about once every 2 seconds" which is a description of a DSP satellite isnt it. Tony Beresford ====================================================================== "Pseudo-MPEC" for 5G4FAAB Created Tue Apr 12 20:11:59 2005 using Find_Orb Astrometry: 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.62603 15 14 01.87 -25 20 26.1 14.0 R E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.62627 15 14 15.24 -25 21 03.9 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.63766 15 25 34.21 -25 50 32.5 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.63790 15 25 47.81 -25 51 05.3 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.65169 15 39 55.98 -26 21 22.6 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.65193 15 40 09.90 -26 21 51.0 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.66304 15 51 55.20 -26 41 39.0 E12 5G4FAAB C2005 04 11.66328 15 52 09.99 -26 42 00.6 E12 Station data: (E12) Siding Spring Survey (S31.2735 E149.0642). Orbital elements: 5G4FAAB Perigee 2005 Mar 31.302298 TT Epoch 2005 Mar 31.0 TT = JDT 2453460.5 M 266.77123 (2000.0) P Q n 308.39979592 Peri. 40.65485 0.91936209 -0.35467289 a 46830.355 km Node 338.20863 0.11599448 0.65785614 e 0.3156708 Incl. 27.29531 0.37592368 0.66440381 P 1.17d H 30.5 G 0.15 q 32047.376 km From 8 observations 2005 Apr. 11-11; RMS error 6.074 arcseconds Elements in TLE form: 1 99999U 99999A 05 90.00000000 -.00000000 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 00019 2 99999 27.2960 338.2823 3156708 40.6544 266.7712 0.85474773000001 Residuals in arcseconds: 050411 E12 5.8+ .33+ 050411 E12 8.0- .42- 050411 E12 3.9+ .32+ 050411 E12 4.2- 2.1+ 050411 E12 8.9+ .79- 050411 E12 4.9- 1.6+ 050411 E12 4.0+ 2.3- 050411 E12 5.6- .77- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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