[meteorite-list] Re: daytime fireball observed over New Zealand

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:37 2004
Message-ID: <005201c33118$6dd09c30$7f344451_at_HAL>

> Auckland Observatory spokeswoman Jenny McCormick says it was space
> debris entering the atmosphere.
> She says the bright colours suggest different elements burning up, so
> it may have been human space junk.

Not likely, as neither NASA/GSFC OIG nor Alan Pickup give decays for June
11-12. The last decay was on June 10 (Progress M1-10 Soyuz rocket used for
the
recent docking mission to ISS) and the next ones predicted are for June 17.

So this will likely have been a meteoric fireball, just as the recent May 31
daylight fireball over the Netherlands.

- Marco

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                            The Tempest act I scene 2
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