I support Ted Molczan's proposal. In particular adding 500 to the day (rather than 200) also avoids problems if there is a surge in launches in a few years time. Would Ted be willing to maintain the registry of un-identified objects? Whoever does it there should be the conditions (a) that a new object is only added when it has accurately observed on several occasions (b) the orbit must be the only one fitting the observations. For instance, I have issued several orbits recently, but these would not qualify because there were insufficient observations and alternative orbits. Mike Waterman michael.waterman@gecm.com Site Yateley = COSPAR 2115 = 51.3286N 0.7950W 75m. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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