Bill W Davis (davisorbiter99@juno.com) wrote: > On the local (ch 25) television news a report of re-entering > "space debris" . > They also mentioned that it was seen in Kansas. > Anyone know what this is about? Two local 10:00 news programs here mentioned a very bright fireball or meteor that was seen in Texas and Oklahoma. (For non-USA folks, this would indicate an observed track of several hundred kilometers.) One program said that it was observed by someone in Llano, a town about 80 km (50 miles) west of Austin, who said that it broke up into several pieces. So far I haven't been able to find any more about it. If it truly was a single object, it was of substantial size and on an earth-grazing track. If so, I would expect it was detected by satellites. We've had a little bit of sky (and even Moon, planets, and a few stars) appear in the last day or so but have predictions for mostly clouds for the next five days at least.... 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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