Re: space junk or meteor?

From: Tony Beresford (dberesford@adam.com.au)
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 19:44:08 EDT

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    At 06:47 15/10/04, BabyGsMommy@aol.com wrote:
    >Any ideas on what this could have  been??
    >
    >http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20041014130009990002
    >
    >Take  care,
    >Heather  
    Heather, those of us who dont subscribe to AOL cant read that story you 
    gave a link to. 
    However, I can say the latest decays reported by OIG were all for 
    October 10. Here is the extract.
    
    Query return total: 2
    
    Query Date: 2004/10/15 00:41:21
    
    From: 2004/10/10
    
    Through: 2004/10/15
    
    Decay Date: Ascending Order IntID/
    Name CatNo Source period Incl Apogee Perigee RCS 
    ------------ ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------- 
    2004-010E 28197 CIS 268.8 47.1 14730 106 0.7555 SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)Launched (2004/03/27) Decayed [2004/10/10]
    2004-039B 28425 PRC 88.7 63.0 229 186 46.2000 CZ-2D R/B Launched (2004/09/27) Decayed [2004/10/10] 
    The only upcoming decay in the immediate future is the rocket stage that put the
    Soyuz TM5-A ferrying new ISS crew, into orbit. Its currently predicted to decay
    at 10:14 UT October 16 ( 0614 US EDT, 0314 US PDT October 16)
    Tony Beresford
    
    
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