ejsmss (ejsmss@geotec.net) wrote: ] story about a woman being hit ] by debris from a decaying satellite. ] tulsaworld.com ... archives section for 01-23-97 That's a fun event to remember. That re-entry, a Delta, created quite a stir. There were quite a few messages on Seesat in January and February 1997. http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Jan-1997/ http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Feb-1997/ At that time Joe Dellinger even reported the same newspaper article: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Jan-1997/0351.html Björn Gimle still has online a graphic of the track of the final orbit: http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/gif/23852tex.gif Due to a large tank from the re-entry landing close to a house just outside Georgetown, Texas, Mike McCants was interviewed on a local TV news program, and this was reported to Seesat in February 1997: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Feb-1997/0004.html The TV station had a story and some photos online for quite a while, but they've been removed since the last time that page was indexed by Alta Vista. I can't remember now who said that the tank that fell north of Austin much later ended up sitting outside a building in southern California. (Another, smaller spherical tank fell in a field east of San Antonio, Texas, near Seguin.) It's that type of thing that they want to avoid with the plan to control the re-entry of Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. If the Delta tank that landed near the house north of here hand landed on the house, it probably would have done very serious damage. Here's the URL of the Tulsa World's site map, in case anyone else browses with images "off" or text only: http://www.tulsaworld.com/sitemap.htm ***** I observed ETS 6 one-power flashes a few hours ago; data coming. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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