Re: FORTE NOT observed: Important Lesson Learned
Jim Varney (sat_watcher@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:52:04 -0700 (PDT)
---JAY RESPLER <jrespler@InJersey.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Jim Varney wrote:
>
> > I received a private e-mail that my FORTE observation of Aug 30
04:04
> > UT was likely a case of satellite misidentification.
> That makes sense. I looked for it, but did not see anything brighter
than
> mag 8. I did not understand why I didn't see something so bright.
You
> now explained why.
I did not see FORTE again tonight. I'm glad you understand, Jay; me,
I'm a little befuddled -- look at the large disparity between the two
passes predicted by OIG's elset and the elset from Orbital Sciences:
Track16 SGP4/SDP4 Topocentric Location: -121.398 +38.458 +0008m
YearMoDa H M S Long(+E) Lat(+N) Hgt Range Sun Azi Alt
24920 97047A FORTE(OIG) Elset Age: 1.3 days
19970902 04:43:06 -127.4754 41.0412 831 1044 -24.0 300.77 50.01
24920 97047A FORTE(OSC) Elset Age: 3.5 days
19970902 04:22:26 -124.8571 39.7304 806 879 -20.6 296.36 64.93
^^^^^^^^
FORTE(OIG)
1 24920U 97047A 97243.85199513 .00001403 00000-0 65110-3 0 85
2 24920 69.9582 269.2740 0023318 166.7783 193.3923 14.22578615 318
FORTE(OSC)
1 24920U 99001A 97241.63283565 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 15
2 24920 70.0020 272.5930 0001034 195.6230 331.1350 14.27534500 12
Putting reasonable drag numbers in the OSC elset doesn't help much.
Maybe I should have been outside 20 minutes earlier? Has FORTE
maneuvered?
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