Bjorn Gimle wrote, > The only object I know, decaying that night, was Iridium 9. > At 20:08 UTC-6 it would have passed to far E of Ohio, then > decayed over Brazil? The article cited by Ed Cannon does not state the time of the impact, so I contacted Ms. Blair, who told me that it occurred at about 12:30 PM EST, which puts it on 2003 Mar 10 at about 17:30 UTC. OIG reported only one decay on that date, 98012D / 25236, an approx 1 m^2 piece of debris. Based on the object's final orbit: 1 25236U 98012D 03068.86970743 .22025934 29815-5 20653-3 0 6149 2 25236 97.6230 25.2017 0008498 167.7800 193.0747 16.51307873279507 it would not have been co-planar with The Blair's location until about 19:46 UTC, which is not close to a match. Ms. Blair described the object as about 5 inches round, about 2 inches thick, and weighing about 10 lbs. The weight was measured by the police. That equates to a density of about 7 g/cm^3, in the ballpark of iron and nickel. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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