Congratulations, Andy, on posting your first positional observations: http://satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2005/0091.html Four of the five have very good to excellent residuals. The one bad one, 05004C of 2005 Mar 08 23:48:59.16 UTC, may have been reduced incorrectly, so may yet be salvaged. Description of 2-line elements: http://www.satobs.org/element.html NOSS 3-3 (A) 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 v 1 28537U 05004A 05068.42344598 .00000011 00000-0 20000-4 0 03 2 28537 63.4354 75.5424 0127632 179.7583 180.3525 13.39754088 02 Arc 2005 Mar 03.83 - 09.45, WRMS residuals = 0.022 deg NOSS 3-3 (C) 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 v 1 28541U 05004C 05068.42353903 .00000011 00000-0 20000-4 0 08 2 28541 63.4353 75.7315 0126713 179.8116 180.2978 13.39752353 03 Arc 2005 Mar 06.07 - 09.45, WRMS residuals = 0.026 deg NOSS 3-3 r 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.7 v 1 28538U 05004B 05068.34914176 .00002042 00000-0 33886-2 0 00 2 28538 63.8264 76.9682 0137399 175.9024 184.3165 13.42849890 01 Arc 2005 Mar 05.04 - 09.37, WRMS residuals = 0.021 deg As of the above epoch of 05004C, it trailed 05004A by 8.0 s at the ascending node, roughly their operational separation, with little relative motion along-track. The Centaur propulsive acceleration has subsided in recent days. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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