STS-88/ISS estimated post reboots#2 TLE

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Greetings Seesat:

The good folks at NASA's new Human Space Flight web page were kind enough to
inform me that they:

>will be posting a predicted post orbit adjust burn orbital elements file
>either today or tomorrow morning ...
>Keep in mine it will be a best estimate predict based on the current orbit
>and anticipated re-boost maneuver! If the actual maneuver is not nominal,
>things could be quite different!

I had asked them if they might be able to do this since I was hoping to create
finder charts (for Sunday's STS-88/ISS morning pass and Mir's evening pass)
for the DC area to be handed out at the Air & Space Museum on Saturday.  But
since I'd have take those charts with me early Saturday morning, and reboost#2
would take place late Friday evening, that didn't leave me much time, if any,
to revise my charts in time before having to leave, assuming I would be able
to get my hands on a post-adjust burn TLE in time anyway.

Since NASA was kind enough to do this for me, the least I could do is let
others here know about this too, in case anyone else needs post-reboost
information by early Saturday morning.

The page I'm expecting them to upload the estimated TLE to is:

<A HREF="http://station.nasa.gov/realdata/index.html">Human Space Flight (HSF)
- Realtime Data</A>
http://station.nasa.gov/realdata/index.html

You will probably need to click on the "Orbital Elements" link you'll find
there.

Jim Cook
Germantown, MD  39.2N, 77.3W

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