Russell Eberst has reported the confirming observation of XSS-11: http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2010/0357.html Kevin Fetter spotted it on Sep 20 UTC, as an UNID in a video. Yesterday, Alberto Rango spotted it close to the search orbit, but lost the timing due to a technical problem. Alberto's data was sufficient to improve the search elements, and Russell observed it within ~6 s time, and 0.2 deg track of prediction. Here are updated and revised elements: XSS-11 375 X 698 km 1 28636U 05011A 10273.19042424 .00004036 00000-0 13380-3 0 05 2 28636 98.5400 80.3099 0233463 220.5149 137.8495 15.08917747 02 Arc 20100920.38-0930.2 WRMS resid 0.009 totl 0.005 xtrk The elements remain a bit rough, due to the small number of observations. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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