Is STS-74 now 16609? (on the NASA Web site)

BobForrest@aol.com
Sat, 18 Nov 1995 19:45:43 -0500

Did anybody catch the errors in the NASA Web Page's, (shuttle.nasa.gov),
shuttle.txt file. It contained two sets of elements, both apparently for
STS-74, but the second one, (Cat No. 16609 and an epoch rev. of 55705,) was
obviously Mir, mislabeled. It even made it onto the shuttle elements mailing
list. That explains their being two set of elements in the file, one for
STS-74 one for Mir.

For the typing inept and anyone else who'd rather load the elements directly
from text, without editing, here are the corrected TLE's:

Mir
1 16608U 86017A   95322.77713656  .00003885  00000-0  46559-4 0  9218
2 16608  51.6438 103.3888 0002558 336.7418  23.3621 15.58084095557057
STS-74
1 23714U 95061A   95322.77562686  .00019322  00000-0  20677-3 0  9202
2 23714  51.6431 103.3776 0008682 268.0861  91.9309 15.75681329   997

Bob Forrester
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