(This post was cleared through Ted Molczan as "on-topic" to SeeSat-L since it contains information useful to the visual observations of Columbia's reentry and is not hypothetical or speculatory in nature.) Below is a "trajectory file" used by Rob Matson's SKYMAP program that's in the format of: TIME (in seconds after 13:50 U.T. Feb 1, 2003) ; LAT ; LONG ; ALTITUDE (in kilometers) The data are based on the recently released NASA STS-107 Master Time Line v12.1 at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/investigation/timeline/index.html and covers the reentry track from well west of the California coastline to Loss-of-Signal over Texas. Rick Baldridge Campbell, CA ___________________________________________ 53 38.74388 -136.1424 74.077 137 38.99255 -129.1507 72.170 161 38.95507 -127.1906 71.602 179 38.89502 -125.7137 71.203 182 38.88306 -125.4816 71.154 190 38.84789 -124.8644 70.973 214 38.70748 -122.9518 70.429 226 38.61631 -121.9682 70.162 250 38.41620 -120.1739 69.631 264 38.27043 -119.0681 69.319 293 37.93257 -116.8958 68.762 312 37.67398 -115.4789 68.438 321 37.53489 -114.7805 68.272 341 37.23783 -113.4046 67.912 362 36.88308 -111.9244 67.561 376 36.62465 -110.9363 67.289 382 36.51765 -110.5460 67.166 390 36.37187 -110.0300 66.998 439 35.38489 -106.7845 66.369 448 35.21480 -106.2388 66.091 496 34.28679 -103.2929 64.090 516 33.90836 -102.0992 63.370 520 33.83742 -101.8748 63.131 536 33.54052 -100.9311 62.575 546 33.36957 -100.3839 62.278 570 32.95608 -99.04132 61.191 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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