Unidentified subject!
John W. Gardner, Jr. (gardjw@juno.com)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:35:32 EDT
My name is John Gardner,Jr
As a new subscriber to this service, greetings to all and a special
greeting to participants of Kelso's, old CELESTIAL BBS site. It was
a comforting feeling to again see names of individuals I enjoyed
comments with in the past. Finally getting on the Internet I see
first hand what, Walter Nissen, had been saying about SeeSat.
Though I do observe sats, my principle interest is the management
of TLE and Reference (similar to SSR format) files. Thus "catching"
new TLEs; flagging those who's NORAD number and COSPAR don't agree,
and seeing which objects have changed their orbits. Also update/use
specialized TLE files using a master TLE file of 11645 objects. I
live (and sometimes die) by GSFC's daily/monthly catalog reports with
reliance also on TLE files from contributors found here.
gardjw@juno.com
P.S. To date, records show updates for 8189 objects have been released
in 1998. Using decay data, there are an additional +561 objects
in either non Earth orbiting status, not reported/released, lost
or miscataloged.
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