George Olshevsky wrote: > On 5/12/07, Leo Barhorst <leo.barhorst@tele2.nl> wrote: > >> "George Olshevsky" <george.olshevsky@gmail.com> wrote: >> > SpaceTrack lists one object as decayed January 2, 2007, and that's >> > 22656 1993-031D, an Ariane SPELDA interstage from the ASTRA 1C/ARASENE >> > launch. That would certainly be large enough to serve as the parent of >> > the object in the AP article. >> > >> >> Not likely as 1993-31 D was in a 5 degrees inclination orbit. >> New Jersey is much more to the north. > > > Right! Then it's either uncatalogued debris or, as Ted M. noted, not > orbited debris at all but some other kind of artificial object from a > more mundane source. Would be good to debunk this. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had the opportunity to acquire the 'rock' but couldn't come up with the purchase price. The landing site is just a short distance down the road from me. I would very much like to determine what it actually is. Would something of this size be un-catalogued? Can it definitely be linked to a specific object? If not an orbital decay, would an object from a plane look like this? Would falling from a plane let it tear through a roof? If not from orbit or from a plane, what else could it be? -- Jay Respler ADVANCED BUSINESS MACHINES CO. 732-431-1464 -- JRespler@superlink.net SKY VIEWS & TYPEWRITERS ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA http://uweb.superlink.net/jrespler Freehold, New Jersey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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