Observations of USA 237 (12034A / 38528) by Greg Roberts and Peter Wakelin, during Aug 18 to Sep 04 UTC, reveal that it was nearly synchronous, drifting west about 0.05 deg/d. As of Greg's observations late on Sep 04 UTC, it was at 48.03 E: USA 237 35637 X 35945 km 1 38528U 12034A 12248.74070710 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 38528 3.4278 299.3365 0036480 316.9677 42.6089 1.00259012 08 Arc 20120818.99-0904.84 WRMS resid 0.006 totl 0.005 xtrk I have produced a plot comparing the initial brightness observations of USA 237 (all by Greg Roberts) with those of Mentor spacecraft observed by Greg and colleagues: http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/Mentor_and_12034A.pdf USA 237 appears to be similar in brightness to the Mentors over the narrow range of phase angle of the observations. The comparison will become more meaningful as observations at great phase angle are added. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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