Yesterday, I received the following message from Adam Sunshine (Adam.Sunshine@CAS.honeywell.com) of the Saguaro Astronomy Club: >On the night of April 13-14, about 50 amateur astronomers gathered at >Sentinel, AZ (about 30 miles W of Gila Bend) for our annual Sentinel >Stargaze (very dark site!). Just after midnight, we observed a >re-entry of something, actually two objects with the second in the >tail of the first. Determined to find out what it was, I came across >your prediction of the decay of Object # 23844 on the web page of >SeeSat-L. Plugging your tle's into my copy of SatSpy, there was a >nice plot at the exact time & place of the observation. Wish I had >known about it beforehand, could have gotten a great video of it. >Thanks for the posting. >Adam Sunshine >Saguaro Astronomy Club >Properties Officer Initially I took this as confirmation that the decay had occurred shortly after 0600 UT (April 14.25), however Adam has corrected me as follows: >Feel free to post my observation to SeeSat-L. However, the time >of re-entry was just after 0700 UT (Arizona does not observe >Daylight Savings Time), which is a close match to your earlier >prediction of April 14.3. By my calculations, midnight local >time would be 14.29166, so the appearance of the component at 12:03 >local (according to SatSpy for Windows) fits in nicely with your >prediction of 14.3. Does anyone know of other observations of this event? Alan -- Alan Pickup | Home lat. 55d53m48.7s N | Royal Observatory, Blackford Edinburgh | long. 3d11m51.2s W | Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ Scotland | alan@wingar.demon.co.uk | A.Pickup@roe.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 477 9144 | +44 (0)131 668 8224