Bram Dorreman has recovered the Centaur stage of the recent NOSS launch: http://satobs.org/seesat/Jul-2007/0160.html > 31702 07 027B 4160 P 20070719023235960 37 15 2342029+014649 99 S > > Assuming it was this object. It was 311 s late, and within 0.30 deg of the track predicted by the following elset (after taking into account Earth's rotation), which I first posted on June 20: 1 70000U 07166.77466843 .00000023 00000-0 20000-4 0 06 2 70000 63.9209 45.0824 0286563 148.8656 212.9725 13.68680000 09 I fit that elset to a couple of positions that I extracted from the photos of the Centaur's propellant dump, taken by Babak A. Tafreshi: 31702 07 027B 9981 G 20070615173140000 17 25 1044583+052875 58 S 31702 07 027B 9981 G 20070615173210000 17 25 1109227-012000 37 S Adding Bram's point, results in the following similar solution, which I believe is fairly accurate: NOSS 3-4 r 0.0 0.0 0.0 5.0 v 1 70000U 07200.09580003 .00000023 00000-0 20000-4 0 05 2 70000 63.9673 317.6366 0286546 143.3187 218.7854 13.68536780 05 I have a pass in a couple of hours, but the sky is overcast. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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