At 10:26 4/03/01 , Skywise wrote: >I do know that many people in the LA area must have heard >them as they all went running to an earthquake website to >see if that's what it was (myself included). The website is > >http://www.scecdc.scec.org/ > >Today I was reading some information by the web administrator >which showed server activity related to earthquake events. On >http://bort.gps.caltech.edu/spikes/gallery/ there is an >unknown event on Jan 23 at about 4:30 pm local but there was >no earthquake at that time. > >This message is to investigate the possibility that it may >have been man made space debris re-entering near the LA >area at that date and time. Brian, looking at Alan Pickup's satellite decay list #112, which lists actual decays in last half of january, the only re-entries near the date in question Jan 24.02 UT, are 1978 26GQ at jan 23.5 UT which is a small piece of debris Molniya at jan 24.99 UT which decayed in Southern hemisphere showing that the noise you heard wasnt from man-made debris. Bolides are far more frequent than man-made re-entries > >It may have also been a bolide exploding. This should have left a signal in the seismic record, probably not like an earthquake. Since you have a reasonably accurate time can you get the records of several stations checked? > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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