[meteorite-list] OT: Probable launch debris recovered from SouthCarolina

From: Richard Kowalski <*damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 18:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <621838.65925.qm_at_web113604.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> · damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Stuart McDaniel - Action Shooting Supply <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com> wrote:
> From: Stuart McDaniel - Action Shooting Supply <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Probable launch debris recovered from SouthCarolina
> To: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 5:59 PM
> OK guys I might be onto something
> here..............look at this picture of 
> the super secret X-37B that was launched at KSC in
> April............
> http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=x37b-shroud-100421-02.jpg?=The+U.S.+Air+Force%27s+X-37B+Orbital+Test+Vehicle+is+shown+inside+its+payload+fairing+during+encapsulation+at+the+Astrotech+facility+in+Titusville%2C+Fla.%2C+ahead+of+a+planned+April+2010+launch+from+Cape+Canaveral+Air+Force+Station+in+Florida.+Credit%3A+USAF
> 
> Panels inside look JUST LIKE the debris that washed up.
> 
> http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/x-37b-space-plane-orbital-spy-100519.html
> 
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100524/sc_space/secretx37bspaceplanespottedbyamateurskywatchers
> 
> 
> What do ya think???
> 
> 
> 
> Stuart McDaniel
> Lawndale, NC
> Secr., CCAS
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 8:20 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Probable launch debris
> recovered from 
> SouthCarolina
> 
> 
> > Darren posted:
> >
> >> Washed up on a South Carolina beach (I'm in SC)
> >
> >> http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12534303
> >
> >> The next trick would have been driving around 250
> miles home
> >> with that strapped to the roof...
> >
> > Worth a pretty penny to space debris collectors, to be
> sure.
> >
> > However, the conjecture at the end of the article can
> be easily
> > dismissed:
> >
> > "According to the BBC, an Ariane 5 rocket launched
> from French Guiana
> > in northern South America just three days ago. No word
> yet on if the
> > debris came from that rocket."
> >
> > It really doesn't take a rocket scientist to rule this
> out. Sure,
> > the Ariane 5 launch was May 21 and the debris washed
> ashore on
> > May 22. However, this was an eastern launch out of
> Kourou since
> > they were going to geosynchronous orbit. Kind of hard
> to get a
> > booster section from equatorial waters to the beaches
> of South
> > Carolina in 24 hours. This had to have come from an
> older launch --
> > *assuming* it's space launch debris.
> >
> > The most recent Kourou launch prior to last Friday was
> Helios IIB
> > on an Ariane 5GS on December 18th. Unlike the May 24th
> launch, this
> > is a possible candidate for two reasons: (1) it allows
> sufficient
> > time for SRB debris to drift to the U.S. East Coast,
> and (2) the
> > Helios launch went into sunsynchronous (polar) orbit,
> which means
> > it launched north out of French Guiana. Unlike the
> solids on the
> > U.S. Space Shuttle, the Ariane 5 SRB's are not
> reusable and are
> > usually allowed to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
> Occasionally
> > they will be fitted with parachutes and recovered for
> diagnostic
> > purposes. (I don't happen to know if they attempted
> this on the
> > Helios IIB launch or not.)? --Rob
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