[meteorite-list] Stardust Capsule Reentry Movie

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jan 27 20:47:47 2006
Message-ID: <A8044CCD89B24B458AE36254DCA2BD070B1742_at_0005-its-exmp01.us.saic.com>

Great video! Too bad the plane wasn't in a racetrack turning to the right
in order to allow longer tracking of Stardust at its brightest, but what
they did capture was quite spectacular...

One thing I noticed right at the end of the video is what appears to
be a fast meteor streak at the upper left corner of the frame just
as Stardust reaches the right edge of the window. Look around timetag
0957:57.029 for a fast object moving down and slightly right to left.
It suppose it could also be a reflection off the window glass of
something inside the plane, but it seems too much in focus to be
a near-field reflection. --Rob


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http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/photo/stardust_reentry.html
    
Stardust Capsule Reentry Movie

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/anim/stardust_reentrya.mov
(Quicktime, 6.4 MB with caption)

This movie was taken from a NASA DC-8 aircraft as the Stardust sample
return capsule entered the atmosphere in the early morning hours of Jan.
15, 2006. At the time this video was shot, the DC-8 was flying at the
eastern edge of the Nevada state line. The Stardust sample return
capsule had a soft landing in the US Air Force's Utah Test and Training
Range at 3:10 am MST.
Received on Fri 27 Jan 2006 08:47:01 PM PST