When I watched the video (from the News 8 Austin website), I thought "daylight fireball". Now I find reports that the FAA has changed directions, with support from Stratcom or whatever they're called, and are saying it was a natural event. Of course I wish I had seen it! Anyway, here's a link to the report I mentioned above, followed by some quotes from the story: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/People_report_seeing_falling_debris_in_Texas_.html > On Saturday, the FAA issued a notice for pilots > to be on the lookout for falling space debris > until further notice. On Sunday night, that > notice was removed and being rewritten to > attribute the concern to a “natural source.” > > Both the U.S. Strategic Command and North > American Aerospace Defense Command said the > fireball seen across Central and South Texas > at 11 a.m. Sunday had nothing to do with the > remnants of the abandoned Russian satellite > and a working satellite owned by U.S.-based > Iridium Satellite LLC. They collided Tuesday. > > STRATCOM has been following the debris field > from the satellites since it was created and > said it was nowhere near Texas. NORAD said > it was not tracking any debris over North > America at that time. I can't find the newer NOTAM cited above but am not sure where best to look for one. Searching on the cited FAA spokesman's name, Roland Herwig, I found another story, from AP, that says: > "There is no correlation between the debris > from that collision and those reports of > re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, with > STRATCOM. > ... > The chief of Russia's Mission Control says > clouds of debris from the collision will > circle Earth for thousands of years and > threaten numerous satellites. Here's an ugly link to that story: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hQTZ5P_PZJnI2vqPuEkhBGJzrS1AD96CEQCO0 Now just related to the satellite collision, this next story attributes quotes to Vladimir Solovyov, as the chief of Russian Mission Control: 'Space crash called "catastrophic," lots of debris' -- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_satellite_collision Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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