Faulty TLE's
Leo Barhorst (leobarhorst@pi.net)
Sun, 09 Nov 1997 17:01:39 +0100
Hello everybody,
The 3 TLE's below have caused me some trouble.
The predictionprogram of the BWGS, SAT 4.75, gives a runtime error when
reading these tle's.
They are part of the 8300+ tle's I downloaded from Mike McCants FTP site
as ALLDAT.TLE from nov 8th 1997.
I made my own visual.tle file of almost 400 sats, including these 3.
Reading them in SAT4.75 didn't work.
I narrowed it down to these 3 by reading in parts of the file until I
got the runtime error.
The problem is with the three underlinde figures.
96029 D
1 23862U 96029 D 97298.18612286 .00000012 00000-0 21782-4 0 06
2 23862 63.4310 .4156 0045000 166.2536 193.7464 13.40279624 06
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96029 C
1 23908U 96029 C 97298.18614707 .00000021 00000-0 38138-4 0 00
2 23908 63.4320 .2534 0043000 185.3638 174.6362 13.40279416 03
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96029 F
1 23937U 96029 F 97303.74276559 .00000360 00000-0 44752-3 0 04
2 23937 63.4344 293.9627 0046000 359.5872 .4128 13.64065591 02
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Adding a simple 0 (zero) before the dot (.) solves the problem.
Probably the same faults are in the ALLDAT.TLE file from last week, as
I got the same runetime error.
Hope this will help others who have the same problem
--
Greetings and clear skies
Leo Barhorst Alkmaar The Netherlands
52.65 North 4.47 East 3 m ASL
Every day I wonder about what I see in the sky