Likely Long March Iridium elsets

Ron Lee (ronlee@pcisys.net)
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 20:05:00 -0700

UNK
1 25577U 98074A   98353.86634024 -.00150669  00000-0 -21739-1 0    22
2 25577  86.3610 198.1902 0021955 300.5584  59.3800 14.77113067    56
UNK
1 25578U 98074B   98353.86636743  .01295198  00000-0  16997+0 0    27
2 25578  86.3603 198.1889 0022875 302.3802  57.5204 14.77166383    55
UNK
1 25579U 98074C   98354.04465110  .00735332 -13380-5  66152-3 0    73
2 25579  86.3664 198.0782 0354765 170.1425 190.7048 15.49374106    85
UNK
1 25580U 98074D   98353.85064896  .00436086 -13475-5  10194-2 0    38
2 25580  86.3333 198.1929 0302832 157.4603 204.0025 15.49430741    57

The first two objects should be the Iridiums.

My prelaunch elset is as follows:

Iridium, Long, 18 Dec 98, 11:45:19 UT
1 99999U 980XX A  98352.52462963  .00000600  00000-0  00000-0 0    16
2 99999  83.9210 200.5260 0115170 323.3580 359.8490 14.54250000    14

Not a very good match on this one.

Ron Lee