Re: New Zealand Meteor/Re-Entry

From: Marco Langbroek (marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2006 - 06:49:59 EDT

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    djmullen@tds.net wrote:
    >>From The Register: http://www.theregister.com/2006/09/12/nz_meteor/
    > 
    > Exploding meteor wows NZ
    > Sonic boom, purple and red flames, the works
    > By Lester Haines
    >
    >
    > No debris has been recovered, so Jenny McCormick of the Auckland-based Stardome Observatory postulated that the aerial display might have been caused by "a piece of space junk like old satellites".
    
    Here we go again - sigh -. No, this was no re-entry: descriptions don't fit and 
    there is no decay candidate. It was a meteor.
    
    Many bright meteors don't leave debris (meteorites). And even if they do, it is 
    often hard to find.
    
    - Marco  :-(
    
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