NOSS Rocket, 96-29B seen

Brierley, David UK (BrierleD@jntf.osd.mil)
Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:53:06 -0600

Using Mike McCants orbit epoch 97145.11927192, I recovered 96-29B this
morning.  It was running 1.2 minutes early.  I obtained the following
observations:

1997 June 20
UT 09 21 25.66  RA 23 19.60  Dec -14 04.0 (2000.0)
   09 21 36.89     23 32.43      -10 59.9
   10 56 03.83     16 49.92      +09 25.6
   10 56 46.67     16 32.2       +22 16
   10 57 17.65     16 11.36      +33 17.5
   10 57 55.77     15 29.95      +47 47.8

Using Mike's orbit as a single observation, I get:

96029B  97171.44764608 .00017046
 63.4294 292.5272 0173669 152.0411 208.9255 15.46314612

David Brierley
Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
Station 2017
Lat 38.9583N Long 104.7603W 2115m