USA 129 has manoeuvred

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@rogers.com)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 22:37:22 EDT

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I had an unexpected mostly clear sky, and as expected, USA 129 has manoeuvred.

It was about 56 s late relative 2 day old elements:

1 24680U 96072A   04168.10537916  .00006820  00000-0  94621-4 0    00
2 24680  98.0266 229.0015 0519364 258.8063  95.4363 14.74002719    07

24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618015910270 17 25 1651793+154564 28 S
24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618015926620 17 25 1654358+205775 28 S
24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618020056140 17 25 1722128+532438 97 S
24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618020109140 17 25 1731009+575071 28 S
24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618020152160 17 25 1820645+712054 96 S
24680 96 072A   2701 G 20040618020353910 17 25 0158730+752218 97 S

What these numbers mean: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html

I hope to track it its second pass, an hour from now.

Ted Molczan


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