and while we're this far off topic .... IF there was a man made satellite in synchronous orbit around the moon (lunosynch?) wouldn't it be at the earth-moon distance ? (as the moon keeps the same face towards the earth) Tristan Cools wrote: >At 10:24 22/01/02 +1300, you wrote: > >>This is slightly OT, but I'm trying to find TLE's for the Apollo Lunar >>Flights. >> >>Jeffrey Simpson >> > > >Do they exist ? TLE=Two line *orbital* elements. The Apollo Lunar flights >were not exactly Earth Orbital flights I think. > >Or were the Apollo flights launched into a very exentric orbit with the >Moon close to apogee of this orbital plane ? > > >Greetings, > > >Tristan Cools tristan.cools@skynet.be >Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) webmaster > >Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 >Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) > >Homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm >BWGS homepage at http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/bwgs.htm > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' >in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org >http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > >
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