Mark Hanning-Lee wrote: > Has anyone else on the list had the good fortune to > see a decay, aided by predictions from this list? > (Apart from the Columbia tragedy.) Hi Mark and all, I just missed this rare opportunity in August 2001 by my own fault. I am always aware of the predictions for decaying objects as I got my own web pages about this, thanks to Alan. That August 11, a Friday night, I took a break from a hard week spent on renovating my new house. I didn't check the decay predictions, didn't update my web pages and didn't go watch the Perseids with the astronomy club.... Well then it happened, the event I was dreaming of, a visible reentry in Quebec, seen by hundreds of people except me :-(((((((. It was an SL-6 (Molniya) rocket stage launched about a month before. Boy, I was angry about me the next morning when I read all the emails... I'm now just waiting for the next opportunity. Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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