Op 26-4-2012 3:42, DAVID DICKINSON schreef: > Dear Gang; > Interesting article on the Brazil fireball and the Centaur rocket body reentry this weekend; > > http://www.universetoday.com/94831/recent-fireball-seen-in-brazil-was-actually-re-entering-centaur-rocket/ > > > Thanks, > > Dave Dickinson Highly unlikely. The object in question decayed 0.75 day earlier than the fireball, at 01:23 UTC near 18N 161 E (so nowhere near Brazil in both time and location) according to SSC. And even if parts would have remained in orbit longer: the orbital plane did not cross over Brazil at the time of the fireball sighting. It crossed well north of it, over Mexico and the Caribean. This therefore cannot have been that Centaur r/b. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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