[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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