With the benefit of subsequent observations, I believe that the situation is clear. I believe that the leading object (A) maneuvered about Dec 10 at 0330 UT and the trailing object (B) made a very similar maneuver about 1500 UT. The amount of the maneuver was about 50 seconds per day. The A object was ahead of the B object by about 29 seconds before the maneuvers and about 53 seconds after the maneuvers. The fact that the maneuver of about 50 seconds was about 1/2 day later for the B object caused it to lose 24 seconds so that it went from 29 seconds behind to about 53 seconds behind. The following elsets fit the available observations: NOSS 3-2 (A) pre-maneuver 1 71001U 03054A 03344.15227419 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 2 71001 63.4160 284.0852 0131000 180.2589 179.7411 13.39783022 06 NOSS 3-2 (A) post-maneuver 1 71001U 03054A 03344.15227419 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 2 71001 63.4160 284.0852 0131000 180.2589 179.7411 13.40581022 04 NOSS 3-2 (B) pre-maneuver 1 71002U 03054B 03344.60046511 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 71002 63.4330 282.9744 0130000 180.1859 179.8141 13.39757249 04 NOSS 3-2 (B) post-maneuver 1 71002U 03054B 03344.60046511 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 71002 63.4330 282.9744 0130000 180.1859 179.8141 13.40584249 04 New elsets: NOSS 3-2 (A) leader 1 71001U 03054A 03348.77712721 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 71001 63.4160 272.3004 0131000 179.2497 180.7503 13.40583022 05 NOSS 3-2 (B) trailer 1 71002U 03054B 03348.77774952 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 71002 63.4330 272.3355 0130000 181.0635 178.9365 13.40581249 02 Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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