Re: [amsat-bb] AO-07: orbits 26397 & 26398

[Richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard W L Limebear)]

 "Alan W Leech" writes:

> By adding the extra 100,000;126223 showed the age as 10084 days, or
> 27.62years, which equates to about September 1974, which is only about
> four to six weeks out, take off a week for leapyears and it's even
> closer..

Take off the drag factor (its dropped 15-20 miles since launch) and what do 
you get. This has my vote. But if someone complained to NORAD about
publishing false data they'd probably change the format of the 2-line
elements again. Best to let sleeping NORADs lie.

BTW AO7 *is* old enough to vote ... but not old enough to make President
of the USA yet (W2RS tells me). Hmmmm ... better not get political.

73
Richard W L Limebear G3RWL
g3rwl@amsat.org
FOC # 1188

          So many beautiful girls ..... (sob) so little time
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