Tony Beresford has reported the object running more than 3 minutes late on 2003 Jan 18 UTC: http://satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2003/0208.html Search elset 70001 corresponds to a manoeuvre at the first perigee following the latest pre-manoeuvre observation, made by Tony on 2003 Jan 17 UTC: 1 70001U 03017.58526620 .00039674 00000-0 45000-3 0 07 2 70001 97.8511 82.8968 0506500 139.8303 0.0000 14.80547000 04 The residuals were fairly high, so I evaluated later perigee passages, and found that elsets 70005 and 70006 minimized the residuals: 1 70005U 03017.85473380 .00039443 00000-0 45000-3 0 09 2 70005 97.8511 83.1634 0512800 138.9452 0.0000 14.79096151 01 1 70006U 03017.92210069 .00039304 00000-0 45000-3 0 07 2 70006 97.8511 83.2300 0515100 138.7239 0.0000 14.78540440 04 Elset 70008 is for a still later perigee passage, but the residuals are higher than for elsets 70005 and 70006: 1 70008U 03018.05683449 .00039027 00000-0 45000-3 0 02 2 70008 97.8511 83.3633 0521800 138.2813 0.0000 14.76979849 00 I believe that the object will be found in either orbit 70005 or 70006, but it would not hurt to bracket searches between 70001 and 70008. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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