At 07:46 PM 2/08/2007, Kevin Fetter wrote: >They have released a tle, for the atlas centaur rocket, from the >INMARSAT 4-F1 geo sat launch. > >Cat number = 32000 > >Considering the apogee of it's orbit, harder to track then other >atlas centaur's. It's apogee is >over 80000 km. This object turns out to be the object Hj0110 first observed by asteroid observer 678 soon after launch utilizing a 70mm lens f2.8 + CCD back in October 2005 for observations see bill Gray's Pseudo MPEC at http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/mpecs/hj0110.htm Some seesat-l members should be able to see it as its mostly brighter than mag 13. One wonders why it took Spacetrack so long to catalog it AS a comment , from this objects orbit I am certain that the payload utilized a super hohmann transfer rather than the usual GEO transfer orbit. That is at first apogee the inclination was lowered and the perigee raised to near GEO height. Later a rocket firing at perigee circularized the orbit. Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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