I think atmopheric entry started over Crete island because I saw the fireball at 30 degree elevation at Bursa. I have a question : Have anybody heared sound of a reentry? (except shuttle) I hear 3 or 4 boom sound 7 or 8 minutes after reentry. If we think that velocity of the sound = 300 m/sec (because of low density in upper atmosphere) between 420 - 480 seconds Distance = 126 - 144 kms That's a very realistic result. (100 kms altimeter at 30 degrees elevation) Firat Barlas Hi Firat, Harro, Alan & others, Through his website, our member Daniel van Os received a report of a very slow bright fireball seen on 31 August 2003, ~5:30 local time (UTC+3), from Crete. It reportedly moved from the west to the east, very slow, 15 to 20 seconds visibility. Although the time reported is off by 15 minutes (but as often with chance sightings might perhaps be a rough approximation only) I think this might well be another sighting of the 2003-039B (#27874) Soyuz-Progress RB decay given the reported long visibility and general close proximity, although not perfect match, of the reported time. If true, this might suggest that the decay started over Crete/the Aegaean as Firat has suggested (as for an observer in Crete the R/B would only emerge from the earth shadow at less than 5 degrees altitude in the northeast while descending to the horizon, this Crete observation certainly would indicate an observation of the fireball phase of the decay). I am trying to see whether I can get a bit more details on this possible observation. So far I only have a very brief second hand account on this sighting by Daniel communicated by him on our DMS mailing list this morning. - Marco ---------- Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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