Rick Baldridge wrote: >Unknown should pass VERY close to DBS-2 March 18th about 4:51 U.T. Of course, if the passage is going to be too close, it would make sense to perform an orbital correction before this time. It was cloudy here, but it was clear last night and object 90009 was found to be over 100 seconds "early". I assume that a maneuver was performed some time between March 17th and March 18th and I have adjusted the mean motion by about +0.000300: Unknown 010313 1 90009U 01572A 01075.70470847 0.00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 05 2 90009 2.8500 327.2869 0001000 10.0000 350.0000 1.00293724 00 Last night object 90009 crossed "in front of" (east of) DBS 2 about 4:45 while we were watching Inmarsat 2-2 or Telstar 5. Since it will now be drifting to the east, it will cross the geosync declination a little earlier each night. It was about magnitude 11.5 before and 11.0 after the crossing. Mike McCants Austin, TX ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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