Re: UNID
Ed Cannon (edcannonutaustin@netscape.net)
8 Sep 99 18:21:14 CDT
Björn Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se) wrote:
] ... for the possible benefit of others I tried elcor on your
] approximate positions - it did not converge, or to ridiculous
] inclinations or MM.
]
] ... I have a problem with your 990908 obs - did it really take
] 17 minutes from decl. +25 to +39?
] It does not seem consistent with the five minutes from +10 to 21,
] nor with a Molniya-type orbit.
Björn is right that something's wrong with my reported positions. My
apologies to him and Rainer and all! Though I don't have my notes with me at
the moment, I tend to think that the first position of the first report is
least reliable, and I now think besides everything else I must have made a
clerical error of at least +5 on its Dec, so that the "right" value (to the
extent it's anywhere near correct) was closer to +15 to +17.
I hope that the weather and other circumstances cooperate so as to provide at
least one more evening to have at least one more opportunity to observe the
object while it's still making passes when the sky is dark.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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