Re: Orion 3 -- weird elements

From: Michael McCants (mmccants@jump.net)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 15:13:05 EST

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    Ed Cannon wrote:

>Mike McCants and I had VERY different predictions for Orion 3
>last night.  As I had gone to San Antonio for the weekend, my 
>elements were from Friday, and Mike's were newer.  What 
>thoughts does anyone have any on the following element sets, 
>which I just got from OIG?  (It almost looks like two of them
>are for another object.)

All of these elsets are crazy.

Here are older elsets:

1 25727U 99024A   02038.23741925  .00004712  00000-0  40228-3 0  4968
2 25727  29.0699 108.7637 0592252 355.8263   3.7550 14.13713288142554

1 25727U 99024A   02044.45197292 +.00004510 +00000-0 +38776-3 0 05299
2 25727 029.0671 073.4440 0591229 052.8205 312.4884 14.13767914143430

1 25727U 99024A   02051.93614469 +.00003572 +00000-0 +30358-3 0 05194
2 25727 029.0644 030.9143 0590858 121.4505 244.5203 14.13826419144494

The Thursday elset was:

1 25727U 99024A   02058.21858441  .00000365  00000-0  16233-4 0  5039
2 25727  29.0658 355.2069 0591763 178.8688 181.2003 14.13843372145384

But this elset seems to have a drag that is about 1/10 of what it
should be.  A more reasonable drag would be:

Orion 3
1 25727U 99024A   02058.21858441 0.00003365  00000-0  29615-3 0    01
2 25727  29.0658 355.2069 0591763 178.8688 181.2003 14.13843372    03
 
Mike McCants

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