At 03:35 7/06/98 -0400, SATO@wpb.nuwc.navy.mil wrote: > > >Hello All Satellite fanatics, > >what was a bright blue and white light in the sky traveling on a course >roughly 106 degrees to 286 degrees (It scared my cat). It lit up the ground >and sky and looked like a sparkler. It took about l2 seconds to transverse >the sky. The time was 005122 UTC. Heard a sonic boom at 005336. So it took >2 minutes and 14 seconds to hear the sonic boom (Bolide or satellite). >Must have been far away to take that long for the sound to reach earth but >it was very bright and looked close. It was a meteor, Iridium 69 rocket was still in orbit at that time, and anyway is in a polar orbit. Your description is of an object travelling East to west. There arent many of those, and none near decay. I would urge you to submit a fireball report to the International meteor Organization[ search on IMO]. >Second Question > >First pass : Thursday June 5th 1998 0051 UTC >Second pass: Sunday June 7th 1998 0018 UTC > >Bahamas location 24.4990.00 > -77.7191.24 Thats easy just by running the bright satellite prediction programme on the GSOC/DLR site , its the radar based satellite known as Lacrosse 3. (http://www.gsoc.dlr.de/satvis). You will find lacrosse 3 elements in\ the molczan element sets in various places. Tony Beresford