Brad Young has reported our first observations of Mentor 5, which he made on 2011 Apr 04, while visiting Australia. http://satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2011/0118.html Assuming it was synchronous, these were it elements: Mentor 5 35603 X 35971 km 1 37232U 10063A 11093.93632932 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 37232 6.7533 265.0137 0043578 347.9911 11.6657 1.00274000 08 Arc 20110404.7-0404.7 WRMS resid 0.004 totl 0.004 xtrk It was located at 95.7 E, which had been the location of Mentor 3 (03041A / 27937), launched in 2003. The latter reportedly was at 93.4 E at the start of the year; its present location is unknown to us. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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