Alan As I remember there were the same sort of claims about a reentry or meteorite fall a couple years ago. I know it is hard to believe for list members but the general public has a strange view of objects in space and especially orbits and especially in the backwater area I live in.. Satellite TV has really confused a lot of people. Because their dishes point to a fixed point in the sky they think most satellites (or pieces of them) could fall straight down. This is why lots of people think that pieces of a single satellite could come down over the same spot over a couple days. I know people who have never seen a satellite due to light pollution or ignorance. I pointed MIR out to a group of people and one guy called me crazy and said it was a plane even though I predicted it 10 minutes in advance, the others seem to believe HIM although they were polite. Alan Pickup wrote: > I do not think the Delta exploded at all. The stresses of re-entry > caused it to disintegrate and all the pieces fell on the one day and the > one orbit, on Thursday April 27. I am certain that a claim that a piece > the debris fell on the following day is mistaken. It would be nice, > though, to see a map of (or learn the co-ordinates of) the locations of > the debris falls. -- Dale Ireland 47.7N, 122.7W, Alt 1 meter Astronomy web page http://www.drdale.com Comets, Eclipses, Satellites, Photography, Fabrications mailto:direland@drdale.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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