Re: CB Obs September 19, 2014: Photographic

From: C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:40:49 +0200
Hi Kevin,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l
<seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:
> When I read this, somethng came to mind right away, a lost rocket used to pace a gps sat into orbit.
> Catalog number of  39742.
> It looks to be a possible cause, when I compare orbital planes. I let others see, what result they get.

You are right, object 39742/14026B is a perfect match for the observations.

Space track has just a single elset with an epoch on June 7. If I
propagate that to the time of my observations and update the mean
anomaly and RA of the ascending node, I get this orbit:

DELTA 4 R/B
1 39742U 14026B   14262.85443672  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
2 39742  54.9679 140.3206 0053938 246.3168 291.8342  1.95520688    04
# 20140919.85-20140919.86, 35 measurements, 0.045 deg rms

How did you know this rocket was lost?

Regards,
    Cees
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