Kevin, I put the TLEs in my program and I got a distance of 35.6 km as the closest approach. I does match the data below. In space, it is a close pass for sure. Denis Kevin Fetter wrote: > Rob Mastson wrote a program called cola, that will tell you how close they came to each other, in > km. > > You can download it from > > http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/index.html > > Using these orbits > > ATLAS CENTAUR R/B > 1 03598U 68110B 04217.89394203 .00000224 00000-0 58707-4 0 8328 > 2 03598 34.9944 174.0227 0051819 354.0302 5.9770 14.52030317882657 > SL-8 R/B > 1 04139U 69091B 04217.19029789 .00000094 00000-0 25740-4 0 9660 > 2 04139 74.0319 92.3166 0005554 280.8470 79.2070 14.60244806842709 > > I first used stk, to compute the info, they came within 35 km of each other. > > But here's some of the output from rob's program. > > Satellites in range of ATLAS CENTAUR R/B: 1 > > Date UTC Time Norad Name Range (km) > > 8/ 3/2004 2:54:56.54 4139 SL-8 R/B 35.5 > > Kevin > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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