Re: FORTE Observed
Jim Varney (sat_watcher@rocketmail.com)
Sun, 31 Aug 1997 10:42:38 -0700 (PDT)
Great! Some information I inadvertently left out of my original
posting:
Date, Time of Observation: 04:04:47 Aug 30 1997 UTC
Position: 21h 42m, +10.2 deg J2000 RA and Dec
---Eric Rosenberg <erosenberg@orbcomm.net> wrote:
>
> Jim --
>
> Don't count yourself out! I'm 'negotiating' for everyone to get
some
> goodie or another!
>
>
> Eric
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> Subject: FORTE Observed
> Author: SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de at #internet
> Date: 30-08-97 00:31
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>
> Oh well, I didn't finish "in the money" but it was fun looking!
>
> FORTE for me was steady at 4th magnitude. Culmination was 37 deg
> above the eastern horizon. This elset from OIG
>
> FORTE
> 1 24920U 97047A 97241.88321338 .00000167 00000-0 10000-3 0
26
> 2 24920 69.9597 273.6753 0024085 168.8226 191.3468 14.22578340 30
>
> was off quite a bit. FORTE was 2 min 42.5 sec early and the track
was
> 2 degress to the west.
>
> The OIG elset for 97047B had me looking for the booster, supposedly
> trailing, but I did not see it.
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