In message <18174316802537@cybase.co.uk>, John Locker <satcom@cyserv1.cybase.co.uk> writes >A few days ago I put out a request about a mysterious re-entry which took >place July 1st/2nd,the object impacting in Brazil. > >Alan very kindly replied pointing out that around the time of the impact >Progress M34 was re-entering...and that in fact at 22:42 UTC on July 1st it >would have passed over the co-ordinates 13.3S 58.1W which are very >close to the site of the crater. > >Could it be that this craft re-entered in tact,and crashed down into the >Matto Grosso are? Perhaps a misunderstanding. The Progress M-34 orbit took it over those coordinates at 22:42 UTC on July 1, yet the final elements I posted suggest that it was still in orbit at July 2.16686 (ie 04:00 UTC, more than five hours later). Hence my suggestion that it might have been a different object falling the Mir/Progress orbital plane. Alan -- Alan Pickup | COSPAR site 2707: 55d53m48.7s N 3d11m51.2s W 156m asl Edinburgh | Home: alan@wingar.demon.co.uk +44 (0)131 477 9144 Scotland | SatEvo satellite page: http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/