[Neocp_artsats] Much junk on NEOCP

Bill Gray pluto at projectpluto.com
Wed Jun 5 12:43:40 EDT 2024


Hi folks,

    After a few weeks of quiet,  at least three artsats have landed on 
NEOCP.  We have :

    A117bbx,  which turns out to link to A116qre from May 6,  and in 
turn links to a bunch of tracklets from early in the year that started 
with TMG0091 on February 7.  (Actually,  that got us precovery tracklets 
from early January.)

    A117bbC,  which is linked to A116XpY (not an NEOCP object;  ATLAS 
submitted it as an unidentified artsat earlier);

    A117dIm,  linked to A117b6z (also submitted as unidentified junk).

    I've done my usual procedure of generating TLEs from the linked 
orbits and posting those to GitHub,  and looking to see if we got 
further tracklets of these objects in recent months.  Aside from linking 
A117bbx to A116qre (and thence to TMG0091),  I had no such luck.

-- Bill



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