Greg Roberts and Peter Wakelin have reported additional observations made last night, which have enabled me to refine the elements. http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2009/0197.html http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2009/0201.html Peter's observations extended the arc by several hours, which was sufficient to confirm that the object has manoeuvred since Ian Roberts observed it on Sep 18 UTC. Using only last night's observations, and allowing all elements (except decay) to vary, puts the object at 34.43E, drifting east 0.056 deg/d: PAN 35771 X 35795 km 1 35815U 09047A 09263.66846304 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 35815 0.0678 302.6845 0002882 26.7194 305.3625 1.00289383 00 Arc 20090920.73-0921.04 WRMS resid 0.004 totl 0.003 xtrk Assuming that it was synchronous, puts the object at 34.45E: PAN 35771 X 35803 km 1 35815U 09047A 09263.66737739 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 03 2 35815 0.0676 302.3955 0003693 32.1911 299.8000 1.00274000 00 Arc 20090920.73-0921.04 WRMS resid 0.004 totl 0.003 xtrk Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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