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From: snowdog@athena.mit.edu (Richard the Nerd)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: STS-27 orbit determined
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Date: 3 Dec 88 19:44:05 GMT
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A net of visual observers across the States (of which I am a part)
made some visual observations of Atlantis yesterday.  We now have a
pretty good orbit for the shuttle...this should yield predictions
accurate to about 5 minutes for tonight.  Here is the elset:

Object:       STS-27
Epoch:        88337.66528
ndot/2:       0.0 
n2dot/6:      0.0
bstar:        0.0
Inclination:  57.0 deg
RA of node:   189.1 deg
Eccentricity: 0.0
Arg. Perigee: 0.0
Mean Anomaly: 0.0
Mean Motion:  15.32
Rev:          1

A rather high orbit, no?  I wonder why.

-Rich

(snowdog@athena, any mail welcome.)