According to the Apollo 16 timeline: Apollo 16 was launched on April 16, 1972 at 17:54 UT. The trans-lunar injection took place from 20:27 to 20:33 UT. The lunar orbit insertion burn ended on April 19 at 20:28 UT. The Saturn 4B crashed into the moon on April 19 at 21:02 UT. I have come up with the following approximate elset for the transfer orbit: Saturn 4B tle guess 1 06001U 72031B 72107.85416667 .00000000 +00000-0 +00000-0 0 2 06001 030.0000 339.0000 9690000 315.0000 0.0000 00.09600000 0 This produces the following output for Austin, TX: *** 1972 Apr 17 *** Times are UT *** MAG HGT ALT AZI HRS MIN R A DEC RANGE 12.2 46175 41 282 2 10 5 33.1 27.8 47439 12.3 48632 37 284 2 35 5 36.9 27.5 50133 12.5 51022 32 285 3 0 5 40.5 27.3 52778 12.6 53352 27 287 3 25 5 44.0 27.1 55377 12.8 55624 23 289 3 50 5 47.2 26.8 57931 13.1 57844 18 291 4 15 5 50.4 26.6 60443 13.4 60014 14 293 4 40 5 53.4 26.4 62911 *** 1972 Apr 18 *** Times are UT *** MAG HGT ALT AZI HRS MIN R A DEC RANGE 13.9 137565 57 269 2 10 6 56.4 24.7 138177 14.0 140209 44 276 3 10 6 56.5 24.5 141377 14.2 142797 31 282 4 10 6 56.9 24.3 144652 Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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