> >According to my calculations, these two are only about 0.07629 > seconds > > I compute 0.037 seconds for the difference between the epochs of > these two elsets: > > 1 25998U 91068H 01159.88700968 .00000026 00000-0 10000-3 0 > 1746 > 2 25998 82.6742 79.3835 0036736 359.6599 0.4456 12.53533419 > 67345 > 1 26002U 91068M 01159.88700925 .00000026 00000-0 10000-3 0 > 1601 > 2 26002 82.6731 79.3805 0036557 359.8852 0.2220 12.53533466 > 75924 O.K., I agree with you. I was doing the calculations based on the orbital periods. I was surprised I came as close as I did - I was mainly doing quesswork; I wasn't even sure what I was doing. Is the epoch defined when a satellite passes a certain longitudinal point on the globe (perhaps the Central/Greenwich Meridian) ? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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