[Neocp_artsats] Two artsats (under three designations) now on NEOCP

Bill Gray pluto at projectpluto.com
Sun Sep 1 09:16:10 EDT 2024


    ZTs0274 = ZTs0271,  both currently on NEOCP;  and they're linked to 
A11a8W6,  which was on NEOCP last week and removed as "not confirmed" :

https://www.projectpluto.com/pluto/mpecs/zts0274.htm

    This is an unusually small (H=33.4) object,  with an area/mass ratio 
of around 80 m^2/kg,  which makes it unusually difficult to track and/or 
fit an orbit to.  It _may_ also be A119mbS = A119bJ3 from August 2 and 
6,  but can't really say for sure.  The elements match suspiciously 
well,  but the magnitudes don't,  and I can't get a linked orbit with 
that sort of separation in time.

    Separately,  A11an0i (currently on NEOCP) = A117ydL (on NEOCP in 
mid-June,  and caught by ATLAS twice since then).

    I've updated TLEs to reflect all of this.

-- Bill



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