The apparent time discrepancy between Russell Eberst's and Kevin Fetter's 09023B / 34904 data on the night of May 22-23 UTC, has been resolved: both are accurate. Pierre Neirinck subsequently reported observations on one of the same passes as Russell, which were in agreement. Kevin provided a time-stamped video of a different LEO satellite, in a low drag orbit, made about 3 h prior to 09023B, which proved accurate. Observations 24 h later, by Marco Langbroek and Mike Waterman revealed that the orbit had changed sufficiently to require making the night of May 22-23 UTC the start a new arc. STSS-ATRR r 161 X 806 km 1 34904U 09023B 09143.98905984 .00321242 00000-0 18996-3 0 06 2 34904 112.5296 268.8709 0469683 289.4963 65.6041 15.26757227 01 Arc 20090522.95-0524.00 WRMS resid 0.029 totl 0.009 xtrk Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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