Updated USA 129 elements

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Sat Apr 18 2009 - 12:05:45 UTC

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Derek Breit, Peter Gertson, Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used to
update the following elements.

USA 129                                                  292 X 940 km
1 24680U 96072A   09108.22026180  .00003619  00000-0  57315-4 0    00
2 24680  97.8405 162.0045 0462601 278.9546  75.9592 14.83277283    05
Arc 20090416.62-0418.23 WRMS resid 0.019 deg

This result makes use of a synthetic observation at the apparent time of the
manoeuvre: the apogee passage on 2009 Apr 16 near 14:55:25 UTC. Mean motion may
be slightly too low, in which case, the object may be ~0.5 s early after 24 h.

Ted Molczan

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