There's a report, "Lights in the Sky", at this location: http://www.attrill.freeserve.co.uk/lights.htm that sounds quite a bit like a possible re-entry event. It occurred over the Bahamas at about 9:48 p.m. local time on January 10, 1985 (about 2:48 Jan 11 UTC, I believe). On January 11, 1985, six objects are cataloged as having re-entered, three of them listed as "Salyut 7 Deb": 15281, 15307, and 15312 (82-033 pieces DM, DW, and DY). The others were Cosmos 1611 (15403, 84-119A), Molniya 1-63 SL-6 R/B(1) (15430, 84-124B), and Cosmos 1613 Deb (15461, 84-121K). I looked up Salyut 7 and found that it was in service long after this date, so I don't know what those debris might have been. Maybe they were something like the Mir debris trash bags? Anyway, I don't know if it would be possible now to determine if any of the known re-entries might correspond with what was seen in the Bahamas that night. I noticed one apparent contradiction regarding the direction of motion of the objects and have sent an enquiry about that. The story also mentions the very unusual multiple fireball event in 1913 that's sometimes called the "Cyrillids". ***** Here's a definite re-entry item. I just found a report about the January 1997 re-entry of the MSX Delta in a US Air Force online document. This article names names and has some very interesting details. It's titled "The night the sky fell in Texas" and was published in May 1997: http://www.afmc.wpafb.af.mil/organizations/HQ-AFMC/PA/leading_edge/may97/tex assky.htm (No doubt that long URL will be broken into two lines.) For those cloudy nights, here are a few orbital debris sites that I forgot about or just came across: http://www.orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/ (same as next) http://sn-callisto.jsc.nasa.gov/ (same as previous) http://www-ccar.colorado.edu/research/debris/html/ccar_debris.html http://www.aero.org/cords/ http://www.aero.org/cords/links.html (good links!) Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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