Cees Bassa wrote: > (2) Object 99069/13772A is an unknown I saw on the 29th and captured > again on the 30th. It is steady in brightness and comparable to > the brightness of USA 200. Mike reported it did not seem to match > anything we've logged before. This is my estimate of the orbit, > which is very close to the values expected for an object in an > operational Molniya orbit. > > Unknown 130929 > 1 99069U 13772A 13273.33477622 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 > 2 99069 64.0361 258.5856 6628742 276.1535 74.9178 2.00613967 08 The propagated RAAN is in the vicinity of an object we have not seen in more than two years: 1 90082U 08731A 11110.44535071 .00000100 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 90082 63.8281 348.1268 6836937 257.0299 24.2251 2.00633445 00 Their ascending nodes also are similar. I cannot account for the difference in argument of perigee; perhaps due to a manoeuvre? We have considerable optical history of 90082, which will help to determine whether 99069 at least belongs to the same class of object. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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