USA 116, possible obs.
Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sun, 13 Apr 1997 01:32:09 +0200
I failed to see USA 86 with the following elsets, searching 3 minutes
before the first one to 3 minutes after the Molczan one.
>USA 86 A
>1 22251U 92083A 97103.06274143 .00000424 00000-0 29496-4 0 12
>2 22251 97.7702 197.5086 0424030 32.5807 330.0811 14.54733086 27356
>USA 86 Molczan
>1 22251U 92083 A 97103.06718094 .00000333 00000-0 22849-4 0 11
>2 22251 97.7786 197.7505 0421522 33.9341 328.8071 14.54668467 27763
After searching for USA 116 for only 22 minutes, I saw an object
on the expected track at 21:53:57 UTC on Apr.12, just left of Lyra.
At 21:54:35 it was at RA 21.20 h, dec.+48.3 deg.
Interpolating between my F and G orbits to fit the time, the predicted
track was just 0.6 degrees below the observed point, and the distance
travelled in the 38 seconds is correct to within 10 %.
No object predicted brighter than +8 (this was about 6) from cs930327
matches the track well enough.
USA 116 0412
1 23728U 95066 A 97103.03741000 .00010255 00000-0 10529-3 0 11
2 23728 97.8720 214.2322 0540270 11.1163 350.1133 14.74043466 28155
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