Tony, OK, thanks. At 02:28 PM 8/20/2004 +0930, Tony Beresford wrote: >At 14:04 20/08/04, Keith Stein wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >Saw the reentry of something tonight. Don't think it was a > fireball/meter. May have been a rocket body or satellite. > > > >Object streaked across the sky dimming and coming back several times. > Very long smoke trail. > > > >Reentry happened about 10:05 p.m. EDT (Thursday, Aug. 19), heading east > to west, about 90 degrees azimuth, straight overhead. Very cool. > > > >If anyone can help I.D. this object, let me know. > > > >I'm in Leesburg, Va., about 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. > >East to West at your latitude implies a retrograde inclination near 40 >degrees Keith. None of the small >number of objects in orbits like that is due to decay. >Also the Decay report on OIG doesnt list any current predicted decay, >and neither does Alan Pickup decay page >at http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ >Better report is as a fireball. >Tony Beresford > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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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