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May 12 Titan 4 search and identification

Björn Gimle

From observations by an anonymous observer and Paul Maley, computations by me and Rainer Kracht:

USA 119 rk      15.0  4.0  0.0  4.2              583 x 344
1 23863U 96 29  B 96136.00000000  .00000000  00000-0  11326-2 0    01
2 23863  62.5744 266.1377 0174789 177.4351  34.7867 15.34014965    01
USA 119?                                         646 x 290
1 23862U 96 29  A 96137.00000000  .00027088  00000-0  27557-3 0    00
2 23862  63.4166 263.3845 0260492 162.5412 158.2488 15.32668138    03

The SkyMap chart below shows these two tracks around launch time, and the tracks of KH 11-8 and USA 116/USA 86 before the reported launch time of 21:32 UT May.12

 



Bart de Pontieu
Fri May 24 11:30:41 MET DST 1996