Kevin's UNID of Oct 19 UTC is a decaying GTO object. I derived the following search elements from observations spanning more than 20 min: 161 X 3638 km 1 99991U 10292.36333336 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 99991 26.3602 20.5892 2100000 266.7253 69.2595 11.53580373 00 199 X 3643 km 1 99991U 10292.36330504 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 08 2 99991 26.3439 20.6098 2075092 266.7339 69.5348 11.49204680 02 239 X 3648 km 1 99991U 10292.36328000 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 99991 26.3249 20.6100 2048108 266.8641 69.7171 11.44400249 00 There is no guarantee that these span the actual orbit - the solution tends toward an even lower perigee and higher mean motion than the first elset - but I believe there is a sporting chance to find it. Standard visual magnitude appears to be about 4.5 (1000 km, 90 deg phase angle). Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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