Adding Greg Roberts' observations of Feb 10 UTC reveals that my recent NOSS 3-3 orbital eccentricities were too low. I would not be surprised if subsequent observations reveal them even greater, closer to 0.013. Of course, this affects the other elements too. NOSS 3-3 (A) 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 v 1 28537U 05004A 05041.77732894 .00000011 00000-0 20000-4 0 02 2 28537 63.4327 143.3930 0124389 181.3235 178.7478 13.39820298 02 Arc 2005 Feb 09.15 - 10.84, WRMS residuals = 0.018 deg NOSS 3-3 r 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.7 v 1 28538U 05004B 05041.76184714 .00009401 00000-0 15630-1 0 06 2 28538 63.8270 143.9528 0137768 177.7633 182.4042 13.42694429 07 Arc 2005 Feb 05.19 - 10.82, WRMS residuals = 0.017 deg NOSS 3-3 (C) 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 v 1 28541U 05004C 05042.44936478 .00000011 00000-0 20000-4 0 06 2 28541 63.4353 141.6606 0123974 182.1348 177.9163 13.39802723 05 Arc 2005 Feb 10.20 - 11.47, WRMS residuals = 0.017 deg USA 129 15.0 3.0 0.0 5.3 v 1 24680U 96072A 05041.79272593 .00015042 00000-0 20419-3 0 02 2 24680 97.9866 106.5896 0528598 206.9077 150.3805 14.72465454 04 Arc 2005 Feb 07.82 - 10.85, WRMS residuals = 0.018 deg Description of 2-line elements: http://www.satobs.org/element.html Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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