T.S. Kelso's elset files
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 02 Jul 1998 15:32:12 -0400
It appears that the OIG situation may not be affecting T.S. Kelso's
providing certain groups of elsets that may be of interest/use to
some/many visual satellite observers. Right now his elements page
says, "Next Scheduled Update: 1998 July 02." His elset files are
available via Web or FTP:
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/index.html
ftp://ftp.celestrak.com/pub/elements/
One of the files is visual.txt, which I believe is elsets for Jay
Respler's list of 100 or so (actually 142 today) brightest objects
(not including any classified ones):
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/visual.txt
ftp://ftp.celestrak.com/pub/elements/visual.txt
He also has an Iridium elsets file:
http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/iridium.txt
ftp://ftp.celestrak.com/pub/elements/iridium.txt
Note that the Iridium file also contains the two "Dummy Mass" or
"MFS" objects (24925 and 24926).
Ed Cannon -- ecannon@mail.utexas.edu -- Austin, Texas, USA