> #21025 = 90-112 F = Raduga 26 aux motor > > As Harro Zimmer has reported, there are several reports from California > which indicate that this object was observed as a slow-moving > fragmenting fireball as it re-entered near the beginning of its pass > across the USA at Jul 2 05:20 UTC. This is about midway between the > estimates made by SpaceCom and myself, and well within the > uncertainties. > __________________________________________________ Here's another report that was sent to my SKY VIEWS web site: ============= Subject: lastnight's sky show in California Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 01:38:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Ledger <dave_ledger@yahoo.com> To: jrespler@superlink.net Dear Jay: Hello! I love your website and my son and I use it alot for Father-Son skywatching. I ven recommended it to his 3d grade class during their astronomy unit last month. What I am interested to know is whether you have heard or know anything about something my son and I saw last night in the night sky over the San Joaquin Valley in California. We were driving home from Ventura and were on highway 65 about 20 miles north of Bakersfield. My son yelled, "ooh look, a shooting star!" I of course looked but expected it to be long gone . I was suprised to see that it continued across the sky right over head and seemed to be sparkling and glowing orange. We watched it travel overhead for about 5 seconds then we pulled the car over to the side of the road and stood there for at least another 10 seconds while this object faded from view. I suspect it was a meteorite or a meteor bouncing off the earth's atmosphere like a rock skips across the water? It was beautiful whatever it was. We have seen rockets from Vandenberg AFB and it was not like anything I'd ever seen from there before...It also seems that if it were an aircraft in distress it would have crashed or landed or lost altitude in the time that elapsed... ================== -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@superlink.net SKY VIEWS: http://mars.superlink.net/jrespler/skyviews.htm Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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