Re: Re-entry Over D.C. Area

From: Keith Stein (kstein@erols.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 09:21:10 EDT

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    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
    >
    >
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