Regarding the possible El Paso, TX, reentry, Alan Thomson wrote: > I just talked with the TV cameraman who shot the video, and he > said it was taken at an evening football game, probably between > 8:00 and 9:00 PM local (MDT, UT-6) at the Socorro Athletic Complex > in El Paso. That's not far from where I live, so I'll go out there > tomorrow and try to get a better idea of the azimuth and elevation > of the putative reentry shown in the video clip. I took a look at both Mir Deb KG (#23888) and NOAA 10 Deb B (#16982) to see if they made passes near El Paso on October 3, 1996, at nighttime. Yes to both. NOAA 10 Deb made a pass at around 1:50am, but its altitude looks too high to be even close to reentry. Mir Deb KG looks pretty good though. Using the (outdated) elements, it made close to a 30-degree pass on an ascending node, culminating in the southeast at about 20:54 MDT (UTC-6h). If it was reentering, it = would have been several minutes earlier than this. The ground track took it = right over Odessa and Midland, TX. --Rob