The four new objects

From: Mike McCants (mmccants@io.com)
Date: Sun Feb 15 2004 - 16:15:22 EST

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    28158 USA 176 No TLE found.
28159 TITAN IV B R/B No TLE found.
28160 IUS R/B (1) No TLE found.
28161 IUS R/B (2) No TLE found.

Here are my guesses:

Titan upper stage (28159)
1 99991U          04045.78700348 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    00
2 99991  28.6000 249.5000 0001000  90.0000   0.0000 15.50000000    03

But if it is in a much lower orbit, it will decay rapidly.

IUS R/B (1) (28160)
1 99992U          04045.83365231 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    04
2 99992  24.0000 250.5000 7300000 355.0000   0.0000  2.24000000    08

USA 176 (DSP 22) and IUS R/B (2) (28158 and 28161)
1 99992U          04046.05112751 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    07
2 99992   4.5000 269.0000 0001000   0.0000 154.5000  1.00270000    01

Needless to say, many of the elements for these guesses are uncertain.

Mike McCants

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