> > It probably doesn't matter that the TLE is three years old. The > > satellite spends most of its time half the distance to the Moon and > > beyond - the Earth's atmosphere is nonexistent there (I remember > reading > > It does matter, because the lunisolar perturbances are considerable. Would I be correct in assuming that generally the higher the orbit is, the more it is affected by lunisolar perturbances (lower effect of Erarth's gravimetric field, increased effect of the Moon's gravity, which is lower than the Earth's gravity, so then the Sun gets a piece of the action) ? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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