A further report is here: http://abc.net.au/news/items/200504/1336792.htm?wa though at that stage the object was identified as "space junk from the 1970s." So far I have seen nothing from the observatory in the news sites correcting this in response to Rod's kind assistance. The audio track is worth listening to and certainly gives a nice description of a classic satellite decay. It gives me cause to wonder if anyone has video'd it, it seems there may have been sufficient time to do so if they happened to have a camera at hand. There is also an interesting but somewhat "off the beam" discussion on a bulletin board, I will be submitting a post there as soon as I have gone through their approval process. As a footnote it is fortunate that the press article was dated early on April 2 and not April 1 as otherwise the report may have been greeted with some scepticism ;-) Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> To: "satellite list" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 2:18 AM Subject: Re: Decay alert: 28630 2005-10-B SL-12 R/B >> That is all that can be said here, but it will be interesting to see if >> there are any educated observations or "meteor reports!" > > There are: > > http://abc.net.au/news/items/200504/1336692.htm > > "Stargazers attempt to identify UFO > Australian Broadcasting Corporation > April 2, 2005 > > The Perth Observatory is attempting to figure out if an unidentified > object seen in the skies of Western Australian and the Northern > Territory earlier tonight, was space junk or a large meteorite." > > Sightings reported in this news item are consistent with the groundtrack > for > 2005-010B. > > - Marco > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek > Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) > meteorites@dmsweb.org > > http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > http://www.dmsweb.org > ----- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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