Scott Campbell, Russell Eberst, Kevin Fetter, Tim Luton, Pierre Neirinck, Alberto Rango, Greg Roberts, Peter Wakelin, Brad Young, and I, contributed observations used to determine one or more of the following element sets. DSP F7 r2 35733 X 35834 km 1 09855U 77007C 10272.10202017 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 09855 13.6594 338.6820 0011979 241.4334 118.4663 1.00285375 05 Arc 20100917.12-0929.13 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.001 xtrk Alberto reported the position of an object that appears to correlate with Kevin's UNID of Sep 20, which I suspect to be XSS-11 (05011A / 28636): http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2010/0346.html Technical problems caused the time of the observation to be lost; however, I was able to estimate a time that yielded a reasonable solution with good residuals: XSS-11 suspect 375 X 698 km 1 70000U 10272.12945575 .00004034 00000-0 13380-3 0 09 2 70000 98.5400 79.1333 0233500 229.9645 128.0889 15.08895200 05 Arc 20100920.38-0929.14 WRMS resid 0.013 totl 0.011 xtrk I am still using the 70000 ID, because I believe it would be prudent to have a confirming observation before declaring that 05011A is found. FIA Radar 1 1065 X 1083 km 1 37162U 10046A 10272.36356206 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 37162 123.0072 122.7930 0012284 80.7364 279.4989 13.49470751 04 Arc 20100925.08-0929.38 WRMS resid 0.026 totl 0.012 xtrk Scott could not find AEHF 1 (10039A / 36868) in difficult conditions; however, Mike McCants believes that he observed it in the last known orbit, on Sep 29 at 2:35 UTC. Later, he could not see it. Moonlight was a likely factor. AEHF 1 r 225 X 50003 km 1 36869U 10039B 10271.82190358 .00004891 00000-0 14840-2 0 06 2 36869 21.4544 301.5477 7903110 197.9382 95.8304 1.55381657 01 Arc 20100920.04-0929.07 WRMS resid 0.003 totl 0.001 xtrk 06829A 222 X 11619 km 1 90070U 06829A 10271.58646234 .00047799 00000-0 12687-2 0 05 2 90070 27.4883 336.1215 4633514 233.0325 75.0120 6.36783235 03 Arc 20100906.72-0928.73 WRMS resid 0.018 totl 0.009 xtrk Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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