Thanks Stephen for noticing this. I will point this out to the paper (leaving out of course the Space-Track reference owing to their restrictive policy) but don't hold your breath for a correction to be printed! Robert Wainuiomata New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Molczan" <seesat@rogers.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:31 AM Subject: RE: possible decay over NZ? > Stephan Szyman wrote: > >> I was looking at this article which i found on spacetoday.net. I checked >> for iridium flares and have ruled them out for the times given by the >> witnesses. >> >> any ideas? >> >> the article from "hawke's bay today:" >> >> > http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3651853&thesection=localnews&t > hesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= > > > The time of the event was 2005 Sep 07 near 18:30 NZST = Sep 07, 06:30 UTC. > Space > Track does not list any natural decays that day. Progress M-53 (05021A / > 28700) > was de-orbited that day, but remained docked to ISS until 10:23 UTC, which > rules > it out. So a satellite decay is an unlikely explanation. > > Ted Molczan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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