At 19:33 23/10/03, you wrote: >Hi Bjorn , thanks for the speedy reply....I'm going to have to go back and >do some more homework . > >BTW my aldat file does show 24931 as 0.9045 inc and also at Calsky >http://www.calsky.com/csrender.cgi?object=Satellite&number=3&obs=439760926486&tdt=2452935.91648768&sat=24931 > >its listed as 0.9 ...... now I'm even more confused :O) > >Off to get out the slide rule ..... John, Please allow for USSTRATCOM errors occasionally. Here are last 5 TLE for 24931 just harvested from OIG about 4 minutes ago HOT BIRD 3 1 24931U 97049A 03289.80272626 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 4431 2 24931 0.9045 327.6974 0773354 90.9784 276.7207 1.00245269 22478 HOT BIRD 3 1 24931U 97049A 03288.88092003 .00000094 00000-0 10000-3 0 4429 2 24931 0.0253 182.3956 0006790 34.2979 137.4369 1.00273807 22477 HOT BIRD 3 1 24931U 97049A 03272.85543384 .00000081 00000-0 10000-3 0 4417 2 24931 0.0390 271.8908 0004653 254.5806 162.7319 1.00274542 22318 HOT BIRD 3 1 24931U 97049A 03267.90578126 .00000083 00000-0 10000-3 0 4400 2 24931 0.0512 271.9572 0004653 254.4143 176.0634 1.00272696 22265 HOT BIRD 3 1 24931U 97049A 03261.88748196 .00000088 00000-0 10000-3 0 4390 2 24931 0.0461 249.6269 0004654 276.6232 163.6635 1.00271064 22204 The sources you quote are just quoting the most recent. This could of course be an error in identification of which satellite is which, or there was some minor manouvering at time of observation which the orbit model has amplified because it cant know that a correcting manouver was applied after the observation. We just have to wait till another elset is released, or eutelsat communicates its own observations. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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