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From: wats@scicom.alphacdc.com (Bruce Watson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Atlantis elements; How secret?
Keywords: Goddard Prediction bulletin for object 19670
Message-ID: <1196@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 8 Dec 88 22:25:09 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Co.
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Today I received NASA's prediction bulletin for the Atlantis mission.
Here are the elements:

Object # 19670u (the u means unclassified)
Int des  1988-106A (B of course is the secret payload)
Ele set  1
Iss date Dec 5, 1988
Epoch    88 337.63665648
incl     56.9855
RAAN     189.3271
ecc      .0005060
argper   289.1680
mean an  267.5441
mean mot 15.39557
orb #    33
drag     .00009828

Close to the elements that Phil Karn, Rich (snowdog), and I assumed.