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Two parameters remain unknown: inclination and longitude of the ascending node.
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PFS-2 had been placed, unknown to mission planners at the time, squarely into one of the most unstable of orbits, at 11 degrees orbital inclination, far from the four frozen lunar orbits discovered only later at 27º, 50º, 76º, and 86º inclination.
Or inclination.
"My inclination is positive.
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