Re: FORTE NOT observed: Important Lesson Learned

JAY RESPLER (jrespler@InJersey.com)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 01:17:29 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Jim Varney wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 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. 

Look at the big difference in period. That should account for several 
minutes over a couple of days, shouldn't it?

Jay Respler
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