[meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:32:21 +0100
Message-ID: <459D3A25.6030604_at_wanadoo.nl>

> Dear Ron and List,
> Thank you Ron and all of the posters on this fall.
> This is a case where people had better have their
> geiger counters along. As Ron and others may have
> found out it may contain some radioactive material.
> Best, Dirk Ross..Tokyo

Not likely you need a geiger counter. It is a normal Soyuz rocket stage.

Place, track and time closely coincide with the predicted re-entry of a stage of
the Soyuz rocket (06-063B, #29679) used to launch the French COROT space
telescope on December 27th from Baikonur. The sighting is only a few minutes
later than the nominal predicted decay time, and at the correct geographic
location and direction of movement from the last know orbit for this object.

The slow movement on the video (assuming the video was real speed) corroborates
it was this decay rather than a meteor.

- Marco

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Received on Thu 04 Jan 2007 12:32:21 PM PST