RE: "reentry" over Seattle this morning

From: Ted Molczan (ssl2molcz@rogers.com)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 17:24:25 UTC

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    Kevin Fetter wrote:
    
    > --- Dale Ireland <direland@drdale.com> wrote:
    > > I was just wondering if anyone is aware of a satellite that was 
    > > predicted to decay about this time?
    > 
    > SL-6 R/B(2) = 23214 was predicted to come back down today. 
    > 
    > It so far sounds like a fireball , and not satellite decay.
    
    Agree; also, the plane of 23214 / 94051D is inconsistent with this event -
    Seattle rotated through the plane more than 4 h earlier, so no way it could have
    been above the horizon.
    
    Ted Molczan
    
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