Sven, As I mentioned in my earlier post to SeeSat-L, SCC has changed the designations so that Shenzhou 4, which was previously the C object, is now 27630 = A. In fact, all the C object elsets so far issued, plus the A elsets since epoch 02365.01917697, can be satisfied by a single orbit to better than 0.1 second in equator crossing time. Similarly, all the A elsets up to 02364.70568348 and all the B elsets since then can be satisfied by a single orbital evolution to better than 0.2 second. That evolution leads to decay on January 10. This leaves just four orphan elsets, the earlier ones issued under the B designation: 1 27631U 02061B 02363.99063452 -.00002648 83756-5 00000-0 0 19 2 27631 42.4166 338.1817 0096007 122.0244 238.9998 16.07463202 45 1 27631U 02061B 02364.29795330 .08819089 86747-5 32762-3 0 63 2 27631 42.4377 336.1153 0023606 141.5036 214.4799 16.41507587 96 1 27631U 02061B 02364.29867553 .99999999 86250-5 14303-1 0 78 2 27631 42.3982 336.1522 0029614 151.2781 209.0607 16.36663733 95 1 27631U 02061B 02364.32335142 -.00002781 87973-5 00000-0 0 29 2 27631 42.4166 336.0438 0096007 124.5196 22.9059 16.29358713 92 The first of these is not dissimilar to that of the rocket at the time but appears to be 58 seconds ahead of the rocket. Was there ever a third object? Alan -- Alan Pickup / COSPAR 2707: 55.8968N 3.1989W +208m (WGS84 datum) Edinburgh / SatEvo & elsets: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/ Scotland / Decay Watch: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ * ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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