[meteorite-list] Re: Meteor Reported in Australia

From: Marc D. Fries <m.fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jul 1 09:50:23 2004
Message-ID: <2447.10.17.14.1.1088689819.squirrel_at_webmail.ciw.edu>

The best resolution to the question would be to have someone come up with
either a rock or a twisted lump of aluminum. ...perhaps one that "barely
missed my head and hit one of my goats, which burst into flames!!!" or the
like.

Cheers,
MDF

> I wrote:
>
>> The last decay warning at the NASA OIG server is for the decay
>> of 1992-088E on June 27, which was a spectaculare one observed from the
>> eastern USA and Canada. No decayers after that date. The next expected
> decay
>> is in a couple of hours from now, the decay of a piece of Ariane 3
>> debris
>> (1988-018E).
>
> Might have been wrong here. Turns out there were two launches that day, at
> 3:59 UTC and 6:30 UTC, and I do not know whether the first stages of such
> launches get listed by the OIG as it returns almost immediately after
> separation. Could be an option, perhaps.
>
> - Marco
>
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>
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Marc D. Fries, Ph.D.
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Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Received on Thu 01 Jul 2004 09:50:19 AM PDT


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