Tonight's elsets for OSCAR 13 go as far as Dec.4 1900 UT, and the true ndot2 appears to be over 1.0 revolutions/day/day. The latest set = 1 19216U 88051B 96339.78367092 .01404555 29146-5 46210-3 0 3792 2 19216 56.9107 67.5229 2307779 64.1890 319.0071 11.12975444 33525 Element set number = 1 1 19216U 88051B 96339.78365621 .23909771 19084-4 46210-3 0 3780 2 19216 56.8786 67.5336 2366062 62.0463 319.9017 11.14537869 33525 Element set number = 2 1 19216U 88051B 96339.70096466 .99999999 34592-4 12466-1 0 3767 2 19216 56.9335 67.8477 2422271 61.9976 348.7960 10.94053373 33513 Element set number = 5 1 19216U 88051B 96339.69378728 .13178426 17337-4 46210-3 0 3774 2 19216 56.9373 67.7624 2367134 61.7486 320.1296 11.11234249 33517 Element set number = 4 1 19216U 88051B 96339.39534363 .03224242 13332-4 10000-3 0 3754 2 19216 56.9466 68.3908 2757802 61.1812 270.9539 10.28407600 33482 Compared to James Miller's elsets posted three days ago, OSCAR has decayed more rapidly, and may decay on todays orbits over the US and Canada, but you will probably have to watch all the hours that the orbit is within range! Remember that OSCAR may glow in darkness of perigee and after. AO13-6545 1 31045U 88051B 96340.73199342 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 12028 2 31045 56.8758 65.1552 0603258 62.9604 195.2762 15.26059677 65459 AO13-6533 1 31033U 88051B 96339.75529040 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 12027 2 31033 56.9386 67.9657 2702052 61.4374 202.4996 10.42081337 65330 AO13-6529 1 31029U 88051B 96339.35318699 .00000000 00000-0 10000-4 0 12024 2 31029 56.9513 68.7302 3160998 61.0477 204.9340 9.45093482 65291 ------------------------------------------------------------ -- b_gimle@algonet.se +46-8-7428086 (home) -- -- 59.22371 N, 18.22857 E AND member of : -- -- http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle seesat-l / seesat-d -- -- bjorn@tt-tech.se +46-8-59095783 (office)-- ------------------------------------------------------------