Question on Cosmos 2370

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Fri May 19 2000 - 10:12:45 PDT

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    Hello everyone.
    Using
    COSMOS-2370
    1 26354U 00023A   00138.57575688  .00482270  12294-3  49892-3 0   404
    2 26354  64.7622  46.8618 0035374  68.0186 292.4757 16.08895935  2252
    
    My visible pass prediction was listed as 01:49:16 UTC 21 May
    
    With a  newer elset:
    COSMOS-2370
    1 26354U 00023A   00140.57256842  .00332987  54615-4  52197-3 0   501
    2 26354  64.7572  39.5132 0047089  97.6455 262.9565 16.01447382  2575
    
    The prediction is for: 02:15:23 UTC 21 May or about 25 minutes later.
    
    Is this an indication of a new spacecraft maneuvering into the proper orbit?  
    Or will this object behave more like TRMM where it's orbit will be boosted 
    often - making long term predictions inaccurate?
    
    At:
    http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/jsr/latest.html
    Jonathan's Space Report lists the spacecraft as possibly "Neman class - a 
    descendant of the Yantar'-4KS1 design"
    
    Is there some history of the behavior of these types of spacecraft?
    
    Cheers
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    
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