Updated 09023B elements

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 15:47:24 UTC

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Russell Eberst, Pierre Neirinck and Mike Waterman, contributed observations used
to determine the following element set.

STSS-ATRR r                                              142 X 340 km
1 34904U 09023B   09209.05528410  .01863496  00000-0  15263-3 0    09
2 34904 112.5214 110.1242 0149000 225.2650 133.6336 16.11447744    09
Arc 20090724.02-0728.08 WRMS resid 0.075 totl 0.019 xtrk

The rate of decay appears to have been fairly constant over the past several
days. Propagation using Satevo 0.51 results in decay on 2009 Aug 02.25 UTC.
Uncertainty is a few days.

Prediction time uncertainty tonight is about one minute.

Ted Molczan

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