Re: 06667A / 90061 re-discovered by Kevin Fetter

From: Mike McCants (mmccants@io.com)
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 22:40:11 UTC

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    Ted posted:
    
    >I have fit the following approximate elements, derived from the integrated
    >elements:
    >
    >1 70000U          09083.04470105  .00003428  00000-0  53540-3 0    08
    >2 70000  27.3299 131.9871 6846226 267.5576  19.1640  2.85634715    05
    
    My guess is:
    
    1 90061U 06667A   09083.04414421  .00002770  00000-0  44300-3 0    04
    2 90061  27.3291 132.1183 6847812 267.3920  18.7125  2.85353204    02
    
    Ted posted:
    
    >I suspect that the mean motion could be off by at least 0.01 rev/d, which would
    >result in a prediction time uncertainty of at least 5 min after one day.
    
    I hope that the mean motion may be off only about 0.005 revs/day.
    This would be about 3 minutes/day uncertainty.
    
    Mike McCants
    
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