Eric Briggs writes >http://tinyurl.com/ac8mrt > >CBC news: "Rural Alberta dodged impact with Russian space debris, according >to the province's emergency officials. The North American Aerospace Defence >Command was tracking the debris, estimated to be about the size of a school >bus, after 10 a.m. local time on Friday. At first the debris was set to fall >in Calgary, but officials later determined it would strike near Kneehill or >Wheatland County, about 100 kilometers east of Calgary." > >The article continues to say that the debris ended up in the Atlantic Ocean. > >... This was not (or should not have been) connected with debris from the recent Iridium/Cosmos event. Rather, it was the decay of the Soyuz-U rocket that launched Progress M-66 on February 10. It appears that re- entry actually occurred while southbound to the west of Cape Town at 18:16 UTC. Alan -- Alan Pickup / Edinburgh / Scotland / COSPAR 2707: 55.8968N 3.1989W +208m (WGS84 datum) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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