According to a follow-up newspaper article yesterday, the US military including North American Air Defense Command are sticking to their claim that the Friday evening, October 13 (USA time), fireballs that were visible on a track from Texas to Nebraska were part of a "meteor shower" and definitely not manmade. The story says that "astronomers" and NASA argue to the contrary that it was certainly a re-entry from the Glonass launch. Here's a link to the page with the story, which is titled "Astronomers, military disagree about fireballs": http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2000/10/19/frontpage/ My page with the date/day-of-year conversion calendars for regular and leap years is at this location: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/day-date.htm#leap I also have a page with time-of-day conversion tables (regular time and decimal fraction of day) in increments of six minutes: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/timeofday.htm Wednesday evening it was clear enough for long enough that I was able to observe some satellites -- after more than two weeks! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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