Re: Columbia debris in Joshua Tree?? Get real...

From: Steven Rogers (srogers1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 14:47:34 EST

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On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:10 PM, Markus Mehring wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:16:00 -0800, you ("Dale Ireland"
> <direland@drdale.com>) wrote:
>
>> I don't have a map here so I don't know how far Joshua tree is from 
>> the
>> reentry path but I watched the debris cloud on weather radar and it 
>> was
>> visible for 9 hours drifting ENE in upper level winds and covering a 
>> huge
>> area that was not originally below the reentry ground track.
>
> As Rob told me, Joshua Tree is about 400km south of the Shuttle 
> re-entry
> ground track in California. No way a piece of debris could possibly 
> have
> landed or drifted there.

The object would need about a 6:1 glide ratio, which seems unlikely, 
but not outrageous.

SR

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