I had calculated a landing time for the main Cosmos 2495 descent module of 18:26UT on September 2nd. What time zone does "10:30pm local time" refer to please? Phillip Clark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Björn Gimle via Seesat-l" <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> To: "SeeSat" <SeeSat-L_at_satobs.org> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 9:54 PM Subject: FW: Forced reentry of Cosmos 2495 > Rob Matson sent me the following info, of which I was not aware otherwise: > > ...I do occasionally check the archives to see if interesting events that > I’m aware of have been brought up there. I was VERY surprised to see that > no one has mentioned the spectacular administrative decay of Cosmos 2495 > three nights ago over Colorado and Wyoming! > It was witnessed by hundreds of people and the debris cloud is very > impressive on Doppler radar (a snapshot of which I’ve attached). That > drifting debris cloud is visible for over half an hour in radar images > from > Denver and Cheyenne. A little surprising to me that the Russians would > command destructive reentry to occur over land rather than ocean – > especially over CONUS – when some pieces of the 6.7-ton satellite will > likely survive to the ground. > ... > The reentry occurred at around 10:30 *pm* local time Sep.2, so not a > daytime > reentry. Feel free to post my comments to SeeSat with my name. > I'll be a little surprised if there wasn't at least one list member who > witnessed it. > > [Image is about 500kB] > -- > ---------------------------------------- > Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 > 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m > Phone: +46 (0)8 571 43 312 > Mobile: +46 (0) 704 385 486 > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Sep 08 2014 - 20:12:54 UTC
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