General Cartwright stumbled over the word "Pacific". It is corrected by a note in the formal transcript, as is the nautical/statute miles error, and it makes perfect sense. The reason for the mainly-oceanic re-entries can be seen in the second graphic on this page and it is elaborated in the immediately-preceding paragraph: http://www.zarya.info/Tracking/USA193/USA193.php Several hours passsed after the intercept before the ground track started to cross over significant quanties of the Earth's land mass. Bob Christy > -----Original Message----- > From: Russell Eberst [mailto:eberst@blueyonder.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 8:33 AM > To: Dale Ireland; SeeSat-L@satobs.org > Subject: Re: usa193 pentagon guy > > At 17:30 21/02/2008 -0800, you wrote: > > >They just a had a short blurb on the 5pm news, (0100UT), with an > >officer saying > > > >"we are tracking the debris field. We have already seen some > reentries > >in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans". > > > >Not sure when it was recorded or why the debris is only > going down in > >the oceans ;) > What Cartwright actually said was:- "We have already seen > some reentries in > the Atlantic and Specific Oceans. > > He also quoted the height of the interception as 153 nautical miles. > > This was further compounded by the Pentagon press release > spelling 'satellite' > as 'sattalite'. > > regards > Russell > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1282 - Release > Date: 15/02/2008 19:08 > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, > SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1290 - Release > Date: 20/02/2008 20:45 > > No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 21/02/2008 16:09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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