[meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?

From: MexicoDoug <mexicodoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:09:58 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CE4936FA92A41C-2DE0-DB1B0_at_webmail-d156.sysops.aol.com>

Bob, Marco, all, Chris,

Now someone in Ottawa is getting into the act (picture of contrails?):

http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/24/ottawa-resident-says-space-oddity-was-falling-satellite

Canada wants this one ;-)

Rumor is the video turned out to be lifted from another probably from
Oklahoma City and not a whole lot to do with the UARS. As for all the
hoopla about Alberta unless this is the world's biggest conspiracy, it
is sounding like a bunch of people progressively feeding and weaving a
tall tale (as in the episode "The Omega Glory" of Star Trek) until it
has little to do with the original.

>From Calgary:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/sign+that+debris+from+falling+satellite+landed+Alta/5454240/story.html

If you take a moment to think about this, with all the amateur and
professional all-sky cameras and online communication, and folks
looking for the show, more original accounts would be showing up by
now. As for the crater story (also picked up by the Christian Science
Monitor), one wonders how it seems to have first shown up on the other
side of the world in Australia first...maybe where the pranksters were
having a lazy afternoon.

Kindest wishes
Doug




-----Original Message-----
From: Bob King <nightsky55 at gmail.com>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 24, 2011 10:25 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] UARS -- Alberta or Pacific fall?


Marco and all,
So where did UARS come down? Was it southern Alberta or over the
Pacific. The NASA update says the latter.



Rob, others,

The video from Okotoks, Alberta, looks suspect. I have the same feeling
as some
other people: a series of Chinese lanterns, not UARS debris. There is
very
little "evolution" in the series of dots.....

Could be wrong of course, but I have serious doubts about this report.

- Marco

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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

e-mail: dms at marcolangbroek.nl
http://www.dmsweb.org
http://www.marcolangbroek.nl
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