Ted posted: >Kevin Fetter's UNID of 2010 Oct 19 UTC (10792A) was spotted easily, >running ~178 s early and ~0.1 deg low, relative my 11.5358 rev/d elements. >Perigee must be well below 160 km. This object will be tracked (I hope) as object 90086: Unknown 101019 1 90086U 10792A 10293.40767197 .01192144 00000-0 74211-3 0 01 2 90086 26.3644 16.4586 2095633 273.6405 94.8735 11.57122578 00 There have been only two passes observed, so it is not strictly valid to determine a drag term. But the observations indicate that the orbit shape changed quite a bit in only one day, so elcor computed the large drag term in the above elset. So the uncertainty for tomorrow morning's passes is about +/- 30 seconds. This object is fairly large - it appears to be about magnitude 6.5 or so at a range of 2000 miles. Mike McCants _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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