OBS Paul Camilleri, 25 June 2016: Mentor 7 (NROL-37)

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:38:14 +0200
Communicated on behalf of Paul Camilleri, new observations of Mentor 7, the 
NROL-37 payload (images by Paul, astrometry by me):

41584 16 036A   8600 G 20160625164900000 18 75 1731151-030220 56
41584 16 036A   8600 G 20160625165500000 18 75 1737160-030030 56
41584 16 036A   8600 G 20160625170500000 18 75 1747187-029540 56

These observations confirm that the westward drift of Mentor 7 has stopped. It 
is stationary near 103.0 E.

It arrived there near June 19th after a 7-day westward drift.

Updated orbit:

Mentor 7
1 41584U 16036A   16177.93784503 0.00000000  00000-0  00000+0 0    01
2 41584   7.5070 353.7330 0045273  39.1128 322.1888  1.00270000    04

rms 0.003        from 7 observations June 24.39 - 25.71 (1.3 day arc)


- Marco

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