Hi all, This seems to have escaped the attention of the Seesat list, but was mentioned on the Met-list: http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Newspaper-item from the message: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1000206.html A fireball seen from Israel and Cyprus around 17:15 UTC on the 8th. Rob Matson then pointed out this seems to be related to the near-decay Israeli Shavit 3rd stage (07-025B): http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Point is: the fit is very neat, but....07-025B had not yet decayed by that time and was still too high for any luminous phenomena by atmospheric friction. So a bit of a mysterie there. Rob suggests it might have shed something though which did decay. It is interesting to look at the orbital decay of 07-025B around this time for clues. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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