David Brierley, Scott Campbell, Russell Eberst, Marco Langbroek, Greg Roberts, Peter Wakelin, Mike Waterman and Brad Young, contributed observations used to determine one or more of the following element sets. Lacrosse 5 r 474 X 700 km 1 28647U 05016B 09111.97696324 .00000332 00000-0 24202-4 0 02 2 28647 56.9932 104.1455 0162276 60.5202 301.1907 14.93278529 03 Arc 20090407.13-0421.99 WRMS resid 0.014 deg USA 189 34753 X 34790 km 1 29242U 06024C 09111.65811963 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 29242 2.2570 75.7452 0004610 193.6253 166.5830 1.04008918 07 Arc 20090220.18-0421.83 WRMS resid 0.006 deg USA 202 35730 X 35889 km 1 33490U 09001A 09111.23150862 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 33490 2.8866 339.2479 0018785 91.0864 268.7547 1.00193508 01 Arc 20090415.73-0421.75 WRMS resid 0.005 deg On Apr 20 UTC USA 202 passed through 46.25 E, drifting west 0.288 deg/d. If its destination is near 44 E, then I estimate that the manoeuvre to synchronize its mean motion with Earth's rotation would occur around Apr 28-30, near perigee, which is within a few minutes of 11:18 UTC. 04539A 2490 X 37872 km 1 90020U 04539A 09111.86800832 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 90020 64.3837 163.2216 6660841 249.8089 30.7318 2.00565365 00 Arc 20090328.03-0421.87 WRMS resid 0.009 deg 04764A 34647 X 37352 km 1 90022U 04764A 09110.51531326 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 90022 13.9309 54.5676 0319149 282.5177 73.9075 0.99521881 06 Arc 20090131.24-0420.91 WRMS resid 0.004 deg Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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