[meteorite-list] Chesapeake

From: Greg Redfern <gredfern_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:48:45 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Message-ID: <3015624.1238496526041.JavaMail.root_at_elwamui-lapwing.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Hi Rob,

   The USAF is saying that the object WAS NOT man made! Check out the link:http://wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1636442

I am pretty sure that the object was out over the ocean when it terminated.

Mystery, mystery!

All the best, everybody.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
>Sent: Mar 30, 2009 5:35 PM
>To: Greg Redfern <gredfern at earthlink.net>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Chesapeake "bolide" = Soyuz SL-4 rocket body (#34670)
>
>Hi Greg,
>
>I concur with the reentering booster explanation. It was definitely
>USSPACECOM catalog #34670, international designation 2009-015B, the
>Soyuz SL-4 upper stage. As seen from Virginia Beach, VA, the reentry
>track would have been highest in the northeast and heading toward
>the southeast horizon. (The rocket body was on a descending node.)
>The reentry path went right over Washington, D.C., the Chesapeake
>Bay and the southern DelMarVa peninsula.
>
>--Rob
>
>(Feel free to forward to the Met List)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Greg
>Redfern
>Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:42 AM
>To: MeteorHntr at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded
>
>The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian
>Expedition 19 booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1636442.
>
>All the best,
>
>Greg
Received on Tue 31 Mar 2009 06:48:45 AM PDT