Beautiful breath-taking movie (needs Quicktime) of Stardust reentering, as filmed from Peter Jennisken's (NASA) Airborne Mission DC-8. You see Stardust rapidly brightening amidst the starry sky and then developing a beautiful plasma trail, while scientific crew on the DC-8 is commenting: http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/anim/stardust_reentrya.mov For me personally, also fun to hear Peter on that movie, as he is a long standing friend of mine (we used to observe meteors together when he was still in Holland). - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4352 Leiden, the Netherlands, 52.15894 N, 4.48883 E (WGS84), +5 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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