Bob Christy, Bram Dorreman, Russell Eberst, Kevin Fetter, Tim Luton, Rob Matson, Mike McCants, Greg Roberts, Patrick Schmeer, Peter Wakelin, Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used to determine one or more of the following element sets. Congratulations Greg, on your first operational use of your NexGen GOTO mount. DSP F7 r2 35726 X 35840 km 1 09855U 77007C 10268.11355822 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 09855 13.6603 338.7161 0013546 245.0892 114.7894 1.00287074 09 Arc 20100917.12-0925.07 WRMS resid 0.002 totl 0.001 xtrk Mentor 2 35685 X 35890 km 1 25336U 98029A 10268.05637673 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 25336 8.2551 9.6749 0024381 282.4453 77.3040 1.00271908 02 Arc 20100910.84-0925.87 WRMS resid 0.001 totl 0.000 xtrk Mentor 4 35736 X 35838 km 1 33490U 09001A 10267.85784338 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 33490 2.7748 356.4041 0012060 84.2785 275.8025 1.00273800 05 Arc 20100925.73-0925.73 WRMS resid 0.001 totl 0.000 xtrk PAN 35760 X 35814 km 1 35815U 09047A 10268.31411315 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 35815 0.0275 137.0019 0006462 141.3476 236.7366 1.00273533 00 Arc 20100925.81-0926.04 WRMS resid 0.006 totl 0.005 xtrk We have converged to a very stable solution for AEHF 1. Latest two shown below, are nearly identical to the previous one; the first ends with Tim's obs of Sep 24/25; the second extends to Greg and Peter's obs of Sep 25/26. AEHF 1 4706 X 49983 km 1 36868U 10039A 10267.91153331 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 2 36868 15.1694 298.7779 6713056 198.8527 113.2905 1.40207406 01 Arc 20100923.07-0925.01 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.001 xtrk AEHF 1 4706 X 49983 km 1 36868U 10039A 10268.62405247 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 36868 15.1698 298.7126 6713143 198.9662 112.9630 1.40207311 05 Arc 20100923.07-0926.05 WRMS resid 0.005 totl 0.003 xtrk AEHF 1 r 222 X 50012 km 1 36869U 10039B 10268.61322668 .00006374 00000-0 17856-2 0 08 2 36869 21.4788 302.3542 7904373 196.5008 101.2088 1.55358371 03 Arc 20100916.04-0925.85 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.002 xtrk FIA Radar 1 1064 X 1083 km 1 37162U 10046A 10269.32621020 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 07 2 37162 123.0034 113.2127 0012812 70.9956 289.2396 13.49469910 06 Arc 20100925.08-0926.34 WRMS resid 0.022 totl 0.015 xtrk 10046A continued to slowly move higher, probably due to small orbit adjustments. Allowing rate of decay to vary results in ndot/2 ~0.0002 rev/d^2 over several day arcs. In the expectation that the mean motion will soon stabilize, I have used zero rate of decay, over a short arc. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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