[meteorite-list] FW: Re-entry over North America

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 27 01:39:44 2004
Message-ID: <20040627053616.4522.qmail_at_web51710.mail.yahoo.com>

Appears to be a quiet weekend on the List, so here are
some OT posts that may be of interest to some:

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(meteorobs) Re-entry over North America
Ed Cannon ecannon at mail.utexas.edu
Sun Jun 27 05:30:05 EDT 2004

It appears pretty certain that there was an impressive
re-entry, multiple fragmenting fireballs, eastbound
over North America a little while ago:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0324.html
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0325.html
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0328.html

If so, it was a Russian upper stage, NORAD 22273,
COSPAR 92-088E.

One non-observation maybe was due to too bright
twilight?

It's been cloudy and rainy here most of the time for
at least a couple of weeks. I sure had hoped to try to
see JBOs, but no such luck. Congratulations to those
who did!

Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA

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Re: possible decay
From: Ed Cannon (ecannon_at_mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 00:39:21 EDT


It appears to me that Scott Dalton and Brian Cook did
see a re-entry. It seems to have been several minutes
earlier than given by these elements (still the latest
as of a few minutes ago):

SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
1 22273U 92088E 04178.90776223 .99999999 77010-6
20843-2 0 5256
2 22273 46.6044 117.5580 0739211 132.0232 235.4823
14.87161965101035

Maybe Daniel Crawford and his wife did not, due to
twilight being too bright? They were farthest north
and also farthest west by almost 15 degrees.

Scott Dalton -- 39.6731N 75.7239W
Brian Cook -- 43.6485° N, 79.5818° W
Daniel Crawford -- 45.049 -93.369

Hope to see more reports!

Ed Cannon - ecannon_at_mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas,
USA

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Watch for possible decay
From: Daniel Deak (dan.deak_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 17:54:01 EDT

Hi everybody,

There is a BOZ motor about to reenter (#22273,
1992-088E) with an OIG predicted decay at 01:46 UTC.
It will fly over the US and southern Quebec just
before
reentry between 01:13 and 01:25. If the altitude is
low enough, we could see something.

Note that pass time is very approximate due to
evolving elsets. This is the last
one I just got from OIG :
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
1 22273U 92088E 04178.84030068 .99999999 -60875-6
22795-2 0 5237
2 22273 46.6284 117.9885 0845027 132.1089 236.8926
14.61505594101027

I have an almost overhead pass at 01:23. Will be worth
watching...

Dan

-- 
Daniel Deak
representant, projet spatial Starshine
L'Avenir, Quebec
COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m.,
UTC-4:00
Site en francais sur les satellites:
French-language satellite web site :
http://www.obsat.com
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