Hi All Davids comment about not being able to fit my observation refers. Ive had a look at the pass in question and see that 79050A passed over at the same time. I have to dig out a set of elements for 79050A around that date ( I do have but other pc is tied up at the moment), but using more recent elements for it, 79050A and 94-017B were together at the time of my claimed observation so I am almost 100% certain that the observation of 94-017B is in fact an observation of 79050A - this is what happens when there are too many satellites. Unfortunately I no longer have the video tape (I thought I did but the one still "alive" was for later in the night). Sorry about misleading everyone! Cheers Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brierley" <davidbrierley@waitrose.com> To: "Ted Molczan" <molczan@rogers.com>; "Russell Eberst" <eberst@blueyonder.co.uk>; "Pierre Neirinck" <Pierre-Neirinck@wanadoo.fr>; "Peter Wakelin" <peter@ascotrig.demon.co.uk>; "Mike McCants" <mmccants@io.com>; "Greg Roberts" <grr@iafrica.com>; "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>; "Don Gardner" <Mir16609@aol.com>; "David Hopkins" <d_hopkins@cwctv.net>; "Satellite Observers" <SeeSat-L@lists.satellite.eu.org> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: Orbit for 94-17B. Please look for it! > Congratulations to Russell Eberst for finding 94-17B. Fitting Russell's to my > observations of May 1, and Peter Wakelin's of May 6, I get this orbit which has > a plausible ndot and should be good for a search. I couldn't get Greg Roberts' > observation of June 18 to fit. > > USA 102 6.3 v > 1 23031U 94017B 03247.85790174 0.00004810 00000-0 24935-3 0 05 > 2 23031 105.0302 320.4188 0019969 114.5315 245.7656 15.15960270 09 > > David M Brierley > Malvern, Worcestershire, UK > Station 2675 52.1358N 2.3264W 70m > davidbrierley@waitrose.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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