snowdog@athena.mit.edu (Richard the Nerd) (12/04/88)
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.)