[meteorite-list] FW: O.T. Fall of a satellite

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:14:08 2004
Message-ID: <20030430081737.21925.qmail_at_web80503.mail.yahoo.com>

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(meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite
Re: (meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite
Re: (meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite
(meteorobs) Fwd: Hiroshi Ogawa: Current Japanese
Lyrids
Re: (meteorobs) fireball in the sky (fwd)
(meteorobs) NAMN Notes: May 2003
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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:55:08 +0200
From: "Roberto G." <md6648_at_mclink.it>
Subject: (meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite

Sorry for O.T.

Bepposax, an Italian satellite launched in 1996 for
X-rays studies, shall fall around 1 May, a side of
its mass (1,400 Kg), perhaps 47%, because its body
it's build mainly with titanium can touch the ground
with
pieces of 100 Kg as artificial meteorites: following
its orbit it shall fall in one of lands or seas that
are along the Equateur. The time of fall it's between
29 April and 4 May. This news came from Italian
newspapers "La Stampa" and "Corriere della Sera".
Roberto Gorelli

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:20:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Linnolt <mlinnolt_at_alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite

This weekend at our star party on Oahu's north shore,
we saw what appeared to be a breakup of space junk
re-entry at 0700UT April 27. It passed from W to E and
disintegrated into several pieces nearly overhead,
bright red color, and around mag -2/-3.

Any chance this thing fell down early?

Mike Linnolt

- --- "Roberto G." <md6648_at_mclink.it> wrote:
> Sorry for O.T.
>
> Bepposax, an Italian satellite launched in 1996 for
> X-rays studies, shall
> fall around 1 May, a side of its mass (1,400 Kg),
>
> lands or seas that are along the Equateur. The time
> of fall it's between 29 April and 4 May.

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 23:38:05 +0930
From: Tony Beresford <aberesford_at_iprimus.com.au>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) O.T. Fall of a satellite

At 22:50 28/04/03, you wrote:
>This weekend at our star party on Oahu's north shore,
we saw what appeared to be a breakup of space junk
re-entry at 0700UT April 27. It passed from W to E and
disintegrated into several pieces nearly overhead,
bright red color, and around mag -2/-3.
>
>Any chance this thing fell down early?

Mike, what the italian newspaper forgot to say, was
that this object cannot be seen from latitudes further
from the equator than about 9 degrees. In fact it has
an orbital inclination of only 4 degrees. Incidentally
its still in orbit, see Alan Pickup's decay page at
http://www.wingar.demon.co.uk/satevo/dkwatch/ for
information on objects currently approaching decay.

Tony Beresford
 
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