I don't consider it a problem you need to fix especially since SPACE-TRACK also had the same elements in its database. I was just trying to examine the data to see how this object matched the "mystery polar satellite" of the Feb 1960 time frame. It works pretty well. It was forwarded as a "possible" candidate at the time. Unanswered problems remain, namely 1) how they messed up on the original radar data to suspect it was 19 feet long instead of the much smaller capsule size, and 2) why they took so long to detect the thing after its original "loss". I figure its all because using radar for this purpose at the time was just starting out so it had a few problems to work through (detecting tumbling objects rather than straighforward incoming ICBMs). -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan McDowell <jcm@head.cfa.harvard.edu> Sent: Nov 15, 2005 3:12 PM To: seesat-l@satobs.org Subject: Re: Odd TLEs for Object 26 I've noticed a lot of errors in the pre-mid-1960s TLEs. Often there are 1.00-day errors which must arise from typos at some stage in the process of transferring the data from one medium to another. I'll try and clean some of them up in my archive at some point, so feel free to email me with problems you find - just don't expect action on less than a 2-year timescale :-) Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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