[Neocp_artsats] C43DFK1 (now on NEOCP) = xkos441 = ZTs0219 = ZTs0215 = ZTs0199 (were on NEOCP) = Multijunk
Bill Gray
pluto at projectpluto.com
Sat Sep 7 11:54:53 EDT 2024
I'd suspected C43DFK1 might be Multijunk from early on. But further
tracklets allowed me to link it back to xkos441 from August 6, which
let me link back to ZTs0219 (May 8), ZTs0215 (April 30) and ZTs0199 (Feb
12), and then to a detection of Multijunk made by Catalina on January
19. Quite straightforward in hindsight, but I didn't have a clue until
C43DFK1 let things fall into place. The four intermediate tracklets
either didn't look much like Multijunk, or in some cases couldn't even
be confidently declared geocentric.
I've lost track of how many times Multijunk has graced NEOCP, but
it was at least fifty. We can now add five more to that tally.
I've updated TLEs on GitHub and for the on-line Sat_ID service
accordingly.
-- Bill
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