At 06:00 6/06/06, Thomas Dorman wrote: >Hi.All >I am checking with the group to see if anyone can >account for a event we had out here in far west Texas >U.S.A..The event time was May 5,2006 at 3:44:58UT. ..... >Thomas Dorman >Horizon City, Texas Thomas, it was a big bright meteor, the short duration and the lack of any expected re-entry at the time make that quite definite. Anybody who says otherwise has probably been uninformed about the essential details, or is ignorant of the difference between meteors and satellite re-entries. Nobody is expert in all astronomy, and journalists dont always ask the right sort of astronomer. The media here in Australia far too often attribute bright meteors to re-entries of space junk. In my personal experience they also dont always tell the person being interviewed enough information for one to make a reasonable decision, either because because they didnt ask the eye-witness , or they want to keep it for the story. Tony Beresford Adelaide, South Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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