My name is John Gardner,Jr As a new subscriber to this service, greetings to all and a special greeting to participants of Kelso's, old CELESTIAL BBS site. It was a comforting feeling to again see names of individuals I enjoyed comments with in the past. Finally getting on the Internet I see first hand what, Walter Nissen, had been saying about SeeSat. Though I do observe sats, my principle interest is the management of TLE and Reference (similar to SSR format) files. Thus "catching" new TLEs; flagging those who's NORAD number and COSPAR don't agree, and seeing which objects have changed their orbits. Also update/use specialized TLE files using a master TLE file of 11645 objects. I live (and sometimes die) by GSFC's daily/monthly catalog reports with reliance also on TLE files from contributors found here. gardjw@juno.com P.S. To date, records show updates for 8189 objects have been released in 1998. Using decay data, there are an additional +561 objects in either non Earth orbiting status, not reported/released, lost or miscataloged. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]