Re: FORTE NOT observed: Important Lesson Learned
JAY RESPLER (jrespler@InJersey.com)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 01:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Jim Varney wrote:
> I did not see FORTE again tonight. I'm glad you understand, Jay; me,
> I'm a little befuddled -- look at the large disparity between the two
> passes predicted by OIG's elset and the elset from Orbital Sciences:
>
> 24920 97047A FORTE(OIG) Elset Age: 1.3 days
> 19970902 04:43:06 -127.4754 41.0412 831 1044 -24.0 300.77 50.01
> 24920 97047A FORTE(OSC) Elset Age: 3.5 days
> 19970902 04:22:26 -124.8571 39.7304 806 879 -20.6 296.36 64.93
> ^^^^^^^^
> FORTE(OIG)
> 1 24920U 97047A 97243.85199513 .00001403 00000-0 65110-3 0 85
> 2 24920 69.9582 269.2740 0023318 166.7783 193.3923 14.22578615 318
> FORTE(OSC)
> 1 24920U 99001A 97241.63283565 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 15
> 2 24920 70.0020 272.5930 0001034 195.6230 331.1350 14.27534500 12
^
> Putting reasonable drag numbers in the OSC elset doesn't help much.
Look at the big difference in period. That should account for several
minutes over a couple of days, shouldn't it?
Jay Respler
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