Great to see they cleared that up...always interested in running these sorts of stories past the experts on this message board when we come across them. An interesting image cropped up from an observer on La Palma from Apr 16th at (what I presume to be) 22:45 UT... looks like venting or staging to orbit, though no launches match the time frame; https://twitter.com/#!/BathosProfundo/status/195582767097053184/photo/1 Also suspected that the image might be a dubious "recycle" of an old pic, but a reverse search around the web failed to find any suspects... thoughts? Thanks Dave Dickinson Blog: www.astroguyz.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astroguyz Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/astroguyz ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Bob Christy <bob@zarya.info> To: seesat-l@satobs.org Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 9:24 AM Subject: Re: Brazil Fireball Universe Today has updated its article: http://www.universetoday.com/94831/recent-fireball-seen-in-brazil-was-actually-re-entering-centaur-rocket/ Bob Christy On 26/04/2012 09:14, Bob Christy wrote: > This was already discussed on Seesat-L. The two videos were reportedly > made around 20:00 - 21:00 UTC (22:00 - 23:00 local time). According to > SpaceTrack, the Centaur re-entered about 19 hours earlier at 01:23 UTC > ±1 minute. > > The re-entry ground track did cross Brazil but at about 00:30 UTC (22:30 > local time the previous day - April 19). From the location shown on the > Universe Today map, the maximum elevation was less than one degree. > > The Centaur is not the object in the videos. > > Bob Christy > > > On 26/04/2012 02:42, DAVID DICKINSON wrote: >> Dear Gang; >> Interesting article on the Brazil fireball and the Centaur rocket body reentry this weekend; >> >> http://www.universetoday.com/94831/recent-fireball-seen-in-brazil-was-actually-re-entering-centaur-rocket/ >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dave Dickinson >> Blog: www.astroguyz.com >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/Astroguyz >> Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/astroguyz >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120425/2a701f94/attachment.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4958 - Release Date: 04/25/12 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2411/4958 - Release Date: 04/25/12 > > > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120426/cb2cc9eb/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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