Re: Kupon platform re-entry aftermath
Robert Knight (rknight@escape.com)
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 17:35:46 -0500
Has anyone integrated the following AP report from Japan with the
Canadian/Northwestern sightings of the SL-12 re-entry? Apparently,
there must have been quite an extensive trail...
--Robert Knight (73N57 40N43)
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Suspected satellite launcher fragment falls in southern Japan
Associated Press, 11/13/97 13:03 EST
TOKYO (AP) - Fishermen in southern Japan saw a shining object fall into
the ocean Thursday night, and Japanese coast guard officials said they
believe it was a fragment from a Russian satellite launcher.
The fishermen were on a boat in the Pacific Ocean about 40 miles
east of Japan's southwestern island of Tanegashima only minutes before a
fragment was expected to fall in northern Japan, said an official with
the Maritime Safety Agency.
Earlier Thursday, the Defense Agency was notified by U.S. forces in
Japan that a fragment of a Russian SL-12 satellite launcher would fall
near Kushiro, on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, 530 miles
northeast of Tokyo.
The Maritime Safety Agency said it planned to send a plane Friday to
investigate the object.
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Craig Cholar wrote:
>
> Something I did find intriguing were the multiple claims that NORAD said
> the object crashed into the Pacific. That does seem to contradict many
> eyewitnesses who saw the debris trail go inland. I suppose it's possible
> the lighter debris continued on, with the heavier pieces falling into the
> Pacific. Is there an official NORAD announcement on the net? I poked
> around http://www.spacecom.af.mil/norad and didn't find one.
>