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From: baker@csl.dl.nec.com (Larry Baker)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Prediction Bulletins: Question
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Date: 18 Jun 91 18:11:45 GMT
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tkelso@afit.af.mil (TS Kelso) writes:
|> STS 40     
|> 1 21399U 91 40  A 91163.12508770  .01258176  00000-0  24450-2 0   233
|> 2 21399  39.0061 289.6558 0008945  60.8652 299.6354 15.96805156  1040

Would some knowledgable internaut be so kind as to post a description
of what these numbers mean, and/or some references on where to learn
more about the math behind them?  Among other things, I would like to
write some graphical projections of orbital tracks.

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Larry Baker
NEC America C&C Software Laboratories, Irving (near Dallas), TX
baker@csl.dl.nec.com  cs.utexas.edu!necssd!baker