Re: Decay watch: USA 78 Centaur r

Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:29:27 +0100

This decayed on schedule. The final elset ...

USA 78 Centr r   8.6  3.0  0.0  3.5 v            177 x 122 km
1 21874U 92006B   98168.48557560  .98548175 -12198-4  99250-3 0   364
2 21874  25.8699  80.9765 0041990 133.9406 225.9733 16.46071152 27998

... shows it running 32 seconds late on the evolution I posted two days
ago. Decay may have occurred during this orbit or the following one,
perhaps at about June 17.57 (~13:40 UTC) as it tracked ESE over the
South China Sea and the Philippines.

Alan
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