CB Obs March 8, 2014: USA 245 recovered

Some observations from the evening of March 8, 2014 using the fixed
setup staring at 30 deg elevation, 30 deg azimuth.

39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193633770 17 25 1504892+571044 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193636832 17 25 1510282+572571 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193640263 17 25 1516346+574146 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193644102 17 25 1523309+575735 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193650512 17 25 1534686+582010 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193653931 17 25 1540897+583028 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193657231 17 25 1546725+583874 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193700312 17 25 1552115+584560 37 S
39232 13 043A   4171 E 20140308193702870 17 25 1556746+585052 37 S

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Setup: Watec 902H2 video, 50mm F/1.8, NTP, Fixed setup
IOD format: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html
COSPAR 4171: 52.8344N, 6.3785E, 10m (WGS84)
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NOTES:
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1) Staring at the sky with the fixed setup is paying off. This is the
   fourth consequtive night and an unknown was seen that correlates
   very well with USA 245 [39232/13043A], last seen 56 days ago from
   the Southern hemisphere by Greg Roberts.

   The following are search orbits that were constructed by
   propagating the classified elset from January 11, 2014 to today and
   adjusting for mean anomaly and RA of the ascending node for the
   first elset, and also adjusting the argument of perigee of the
   second elset. Neither of these elsets connect to the single
   observation Russell Eberst made on March 3, so most likely the mean
   motion has changed as well. So expect it to be early or late by a
   few minutes.

USA 245; mean anomaly + raan
1 39232U 13043A   14067.85842593  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
2 39232  97.8440 132.6739 0505955 285.4508 353.2047 14.85279074    06
# 20140308.82-20140308.82, 9 measurements, 0.080 deg rms
USA 245; mean anomaly + raan + argument of perigee
1 39232U 13043A   14067.85842593  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
2 39232  97.8440 133.2225 0505955 278.0183   1.4903 14.85279074    03
# 20140308.82-20140308.82, 9 measurements, 0.021 deg rms

Regards,
   Cees
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