Dan Karcher asked me to forward this. Peter dear Peter , Again in the satellites business. firstorb output for geo05592 ,made with 2 obs from greg Roberts 05092.841000 00000 03.40 041.6 0.00000 0.0000 120.1 01.019200 long 28 deg EAST Note that N may be very different , also for e , but I think i is within 0.3 deg from its real value My site 2572 was closed april 2002 , a new is under preparation( for 2006 ? ) actual site not very suitable for CCD obs , location is 4.5 KM South-east from wittenheim. Found an interesting BOOK ( METHODS of ORBITS determination , basic prog. laplace , improve and a lot of other , deals with COMETS ,ASTEROIDS , but can be adapted for distant satellites when you use short arcs and precises obs. SEE willmann bell , 1991 isbn 0-943396-34-4 , richmond usa , author is Dan BOULET can you forward this message to seesat ? THANKS will be , again, registered in the next days daniel KARCHER -- Peter Wakelin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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