RE: Pierre Neirinck, 1926-2016

From: Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:28:46 -0500
Marco, your memoriam is excellent. 

I do not recall ever seeing Pierre's "Dernier photo de Spoutnik 2," before now. He took it just 6 hours before it
decayed over the Caribbean, the first ever re-entry to be witnessed. In Tapestry of Orbits, p.42, King-Hele mentioned
that this pass had been widely observed from Britain. Pierre identified a large number of satellite re-entry sightings,
one of the many skills he developed.

Ted Molczan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seesat-l [mailto:seesat-l-bounces+ssl3molcz=rogers.com_at_satobs.org] On Behalf Of Marco
> Langbroek via Seesat-l
> Sent: January-05-16 10:52 AM
> To: Ted Molczan; seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> Cc: Bram Dorreman
> Subject: Re: Pierre Neirinck, 1926-2016
> 
> 
> I spent today going through several years of communications with Pierre, and I
> have put an in memoriam on my blog:
> 
> http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2016/01/in-memoriam-pierre-neirinck-16-aug-1926.html
> 
> Please let me know if anyone finds inaccuracies or misunderstandings in it (as
> much of Pierre's active career was well before my time).
> 
> - Marco
> 
> 
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