A couple of notes here: The spacecraft in question was the decaying Progress M-58, but it turns out that the "near miss" occurred at 1000 GMT, some 13 hours prior to the Progress re-entry time: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ This begs the question as to what large objected decayed on the 27th? DWA At 12:24 PM 3/28/2007, Robert Holdsworth wrote: >It has been reported that there was a near miss in the Pacific >between a jetliner and the decaying Soyuz recently released from the ISS. > >At the time of writing the story is available at >http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200703290635/near_miss_between_space_junk_and_jetliner_over_pacific >it may be there for a limited time but is very likely to be >available from other sources- I do not have time to check just now. > >Robert >Wainuiomata >New Zealand > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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