RE: Venting from DMSP F18 18 October 2009

From: Derek C Breit (breit_ideas@poyntsource.com)
Date: Sat Oct 24 2009 - 22:15:55 UTC

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    From this website...
    http://www.astronomical.co.za/gallery.htm
    
    There is this...
    
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    It's hard to imagine anything like this happening above South Africa without
    Greg Roberts observing it from his station in Western Cape.. 
    
    Greg writes:
    
    It was a most spectacular event - took me completely by suprise as the fuel
    dump was scheduled to take place later over Europe when they boosted the
    Centaur rocket to heliocentric orbit. What we saw here in SA beats anything
    Ive seen so far from Europe - the rocket appeared to be "puffing" and I
    guess this was propellent venting and then expanding in concentric rings
    around the rocket. 
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    :-))
    
    
    Derek
    www.poyntsource.com/New/index.htm
     
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Greg Roberts [mailto:grr@telkomsa.net] 
    Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:42 PM
    To: SeeSat-D@satobs.org
    Subject: Venting from DMSP F18 18 October 2009
    
    
    Hi all
    
    If anyone interested here are some reports/photographs of the spectacular 
    event as seen from South Africa.
    
    http://www.psychohistorian.org/astronomy/news/2009/20091018-rocket-fuel-ufo.
    php
    
    
    Best wishes
    Greg 
    
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