At 00:06 6/09/01 , Chris Peat wrote: >Hi All, >Another possible satellite re-entry? > > > >Chris, forgot to include my location in >previous e-mail. It is 39.341 N -77.2075 W > >George >Chris, I just saw an object that I could not >identify and was wondering if some rocket body >re-entered... > >Here's what I saw: Coming out of the west at 10:08:00 ut >around 15 degrees elevation, an object moving towards >the south-east. It was moving 4 or 5 times faster >than the ISS or a satellite. Was orange in color and >of detectable size. It sometimes appeared to be slightly >elongated along its path. It reached around mag -3 as it >approached my central meridian which it crossed at >10:08:22 ut at around 30 degrees elevation. I then lost >it in the trees around 10:08:40 ut at around 15 degrees >elevation at a direction of SSE. > >It didn't look like a meteor or earth grazing chunk of >rock and wasn't an airplane. Any ideas? Chris , George, just a note to say that this cant be the SL3 rocket 75 076B mentioned by Harro Zimmer as expected to decay Sep 6. There was a visible pass from George varros's site but it was predicted to be at 10:56UT, and it was going s-n, rather than N-s Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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