01040A launch: Elements and observations

From: Ted Molczan (molczan@home.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2001 - 09:54:53 EDT


I derived the following from observations made during 2001 Sep 10 - 18 UTC:

USA 160          0.0  0.0  0.0  5.7 v
1 26905U 01040A   01261.07655093  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
2 26905  63.4239 274.9793 0135447 184.7699 175.2026 13.41930005    09
USA 160 r       10.1  3.0  0.0  4.3 v
1 26906U 01040B   01260.17259838  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    03
2 26906  63.4733 276.5767 0149592 188.3774 171.4504 13.43448178    04
01040C           0.0  0.0  0.0  6.1 v
1 26907U 01040C   01261.07616319  .00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    05
2 26907  63.4248 274.9750 0133245 185.4056 174.5522 13.41878684    00

Mean residuals are less than 0.02 deg.

I made the following observations last night:

26907 01 040C   2701 G 20010919012127390 17 25 2301438+570833 28 S
26905 01 040A   2701 G 20010919012156980 17 25 2300471+573436 28 S
26907 01 040C   2701 G 20010919012305870 17 25 0147173+575865 18 S
26905 01 040A   2701 G 20010919012335370 17 25 0147938+581438 18 S
26907 01 040C   2701 G 20010919012448550 17 25 0318956+512755 28 S
26905 01 040A   2701 G 20010919012518100 17 25 0320034+513472 28 S

The C object was about 0.85 s late, and the A object was about 0.8 s early,
relative the above elements.

Site 2701: 43.68764 N, 79.39243 W, 230 m

Ted Molczan

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