USA 198 and USA 198 Centaur

From: Mike McCants (mmccants@io.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 06:02:45 UTC

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    The payload has a small drag term but the Centaur has a rather
    large drag term.  Int2 predicts that the perigee of the Centaur
    will rise slowly over the next year and that will cause the drag
    term to decrease.  But it will be a challenge to track for the
    next several months.
    
    USA 198
    1 32378U 07060A   07346.89533062 0.00001757  00000-0  17534-3 0    08
    2 32378  60.0106 317.1239 5543977 287.1515  72.8485  4.77580618    03
    USA 198 Cn r
    1 32379U 07060B   07346.84730914 0.00069200  00000-0  28374-2 0    09
    2 32379  60.7629 318.0027 5493200 285.4805  74.5049  4.90067973    06
    
    Mike McCants
    
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