Hi, This is a question for those of you who track satellite decay and entry. Did anything return to Earth last Wednesday (March 14th) during daylight hours (say 7 AM through 4 PM EST) with a possible debris field including Bel Air, MD? The local news reported a strange piece of metal that fell from the sky right into someone's house. It punched through the ceiling and some walls and came to rest inside a dresser. The object was shown on the news report, and it looked to be a solid cylinder about 6 inches long and maybe 2 inches in diameter. They said it appeared to be a bolt of some sort, and it weighed about 3 pounds. No one was home at the time, so there is no firm impact time to report. The news also said the FAA told them there were no aircraft in the area to drop this thing. So maybe it was a chunk of satellite? I don't have the exact coordinates for the target house, but it is approximately 39.5 lat and -76.25 long, in Bel Air, MD, which is just north of Baltimore. Monroe Harden Belcamp, MD ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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