Re: Value of timing shadow entry (was Mir and Shadow Entry Q)

From: Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 04:40:23 PST

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>How does one calculate the TLE from sets of observations?  I am interested
in


There are programs that can help:

First (or FirstOrb) makes a circular orbit from two points
FitElem (by Mike McCants) improves an approximate elset by manual iteration
Elcor (Hirose/McCants) automates this, but may diverge. Iterations can be
manually adjusted.

Program links found on
>the math of it.
>
Celestial Mechanics textbooks were discussed recently on SeeSat-L
thread starting with
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Jan-2000/0085.html
(0087, 0090, 0091 +?)

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