Universe Today has updated its article: http://www.universetoday.com/94831/recent-fireball-seen-in-brazil-was-actually-re-entering-centaur-rocket/ Bob Christy On 26/04/2012 09:14, Bob Christy wrote: > This was already discussed on Seesat-L. The two videos were reportedly > made around 20:00 - 21:00 UTC (22:00 - 23:00 local time). According to > SpaceTrack, the Centaur re-entered about 19 hours earlier at 01:23 UTC > ±1 minute. > > The re-entry ground track did cross Brazil but at about 00:30 UTC (22:30 > local time the previous day - April 19). From the location shown on the > Universe Today map, the maximum elevation was less than one degree. > > The Centaur is not the object in the videos. > > Bob Christy > > > On 26/04/2012 02:42, DAVID DICKINSON wrote: >> 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 >> Blog: www.astroguyz.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astroguyz >> Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/astroguyz >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120425/2a701f94/attachment.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4958 - Release Date: 04/25/12 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4958 - Release Date: 04/25/12 > > > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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