Congratulations on recovering the object, Peter! This was a difficult search, because the mean motion of the search orbit was not precise, having been based upon a short observational arc. As a result, you observed it nearly 207 min late relative the search elements: USA 179 r search 418 X 16551 1 70000U 04245.01789074 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 70000 58.0589 230.1446 5430000 295.8680 358.9127 4.79469091 08 Your second point seems to be considerably more accurate than your first; adding it to the analysis yields this result, having WRMS residuals = 0.08 deg: USA 179 r 368 X 17027 1 28385U 04034B 04245.01789075 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 28385 58.1442 230.2283 5527510 296.2717 358.3446 4.69334798 07 I used the same epoch for the above as the search elset, to facilitate comparison. Here is the result for the ascending node prior to your observations: USA 179 r 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.7 v 1 28385U 04034B 04251.84733670 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 00 2 28385 58.1443 226.5553 5527494 297.6353 17.4128 4.69334799 09 Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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