Rob Matson sent me the following info, of which I was not aware otherwise: ...I do occasionally check the archives to see if interesting events that I’m aware of have been brought up there. I was VERY surprised to see that no one has mentioned the spectacular administrative decay of Cosmos 2495 three nights ago over Colorado and Wyoming! It was witnessed by hundreds of people and the debris cloud is very impressive on Doppler radar (a snapshot of which I’ve attached). That drifting debris cloud is visible for over half an hour in radar images from Denver and Cheyenne. A little surprising to me that the Russians would command destructive reentry to occur over land rather than ocean – especially over CONUS – when some pieces of the 6.7-ton satellite will likely survive to the ground. ... The reentry occurred at around 10:30 *pm* local time Sep.2, so not a daytime reentry. Feel free to post my comments to SeeSat with my name. I'll be a little surprised if there wasn't at least one list member who witnessed it. [Image is about 500kB] -- ---------------------------------------- Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m Phone: +46 (0)8 571 43 312 Mobile: +46 (0) 704 385 486 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Sep 08 2014 - 15:55:13 UTC
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