From Spaceweather.com: Astronomer Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office has analyzed the video and confirms "it's a natural meteor, definitely." According to Cooke's analysis, the source of the fireball was a meter-class asteroid traveling at about 20 km/s. Ed Cannon wrote: > When I watched the video (from the News 8 > Austin website), I thought "daylight fireball". > Now I find reports that the FAA has changed > directions, with support from Stratcom or > whatever they're called, and are saying it > was a natural event. Of course I wish I had > seen it! Anyway, here's a link to the report > I mentioned above, followed by some quotes > from the story: > > http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/People_report_seeing_falling_debris_in_Texas_.html > > >> On Saturday, the FAA issued a notice for pilots >> to be on the lookout for falling space debris >> until further notice. On Sunday night, that >> notice was removed and being rewritten to >> attribute the concern to a “natural source.” >> >> Both the U.S. Strategic Command and North >> American Aerospace Defense Command said the >> fireball seen across Central and South Texas >> at 11 a.m. Sunday had nothing to do with the >> remnants of the abandoned Russian satellite >> and a working satellite owned by U.S.-based >> Iridium Satellite LLC. They collided Tuesday. >> >> STRATCOM has been following the debris field >> from the satellites since it was created and >> said it was nowhere near Texas. NORAD said >> it was not tracking any debris over North >> America at that time. >> > > I can't find the newer NOTAM cited above but > am not sure where best to look for one. > > Searching on the cited FAA spokesman's name, > Roland Herwig, I found another story, from AP, > that says: > > >> "There is no correlation between the debris >> from that collision and those reports of >> re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, with >> STRATCOM. >> ... >> The chief of Russia's Mission Control says >> clouds of debris from the collision will >> circle Earth for thousands of years and >> threaten numerous satellites. >> > > Here's an ugly link to that story: > > http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hQTZ5P_PZJnI2vqPuEkhBGJzrS1AD96CEQCO0 > > Now just related to the satellite collision, > this next story attributes quotes to Vladimir > Solovyov, as the chief of Russian Mission > Control: > > 'Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of > debris' -- > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_satellite_collision > > Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > > -- Gregory S. Williams gregwilliams(at)knology.net k4hsm(at)knology.net http://www.etskywarn.net http://www.twiar.org http://www.icebearnation.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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