Revised IGS 5A rocket search elements

From: Ted Molczan (ssl3molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 18:29:05 UTC

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    Russell Eberst has been searching for IGS-related objects near the IGS
    western plane. There have been two launches into that plane: 03009A and
    09066A. On 2010 Mar 02 UTC, Russell observed what he believed to be 03009B /
    27699. It seemed a close fit, so I posted elements approximate elements for
    epoch 10061.845:
    
    http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2010/0023.html
    
    Mike McCants produced similar elements.
    
    Russell has since attempted to observe the object in that orbit, twice, to
    no avail, so he is coming to the conclusion that it was not 03009B that he
    observed, and is now working on the premise that it may be 09066B. I have
    looked into that possibility, and it seems reasonable. The object was about
    19 min late relative the search elements I posted shortly after the 09006A
    launch, and very close to the predicted track, after allowing for Earth's
    rotation. Here are revised search elements, with the rate of decay reduced
    to closely approximate Russell's observation of Mar 02:
    
    1 70611U          09332.10017880  .00002797  00000-0  12800-3 0    09
    2 70611  97.3006  40.0640 0067938 322.9021  36.7527 15.18455430    04
    
    Ted Molczan
    
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