[meteorite-list] Guatemala space debris crash

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 22:46:22 -0700
Message-ID: <89E5C09A-3E27-4FF2-8D42-EF185E8BDEBD_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Rob, the fireball in Guatemala last week was space junk, video showing large fuel tank debris was posted in local Peten news.
do you have any idea what craft re-entered for that debris?

Michael Farmer

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On May 9, 2012, at 10:06 PM, "Rob Matson" <mojave_meteorites at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
>> irridium flare? u got to be Fing kidding! It moved from the north
>> star to out of site the same as every naked eye neo posted on
>> heavens above.
>
> When you use the acronym "NEO", that means asteroid, not artificial
> satellite. As others have pointed out, no way you saw ANY asteroid
> naked eye, so you're obviously talking about a manmade satellite.
> Given the brightness, and the lack of information about angular
> velocity, Iridium flare is a perfectly reasonable guess. If you
> want someone to ID what you saw, you just have to provide your
> latitude & longitude. It is very easy to ID anything that reaches
> negative magnitude.
>
> --Rob
>
> --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT
>> To: clp at alumni.caltech.edu, "meteoritelist meteoritelist"
> <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4:02 PM
>>
>> My first thought was an iridium flare.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:37:37 -0600
>>> From: clp at alumni.caltech.edu
>>> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT
>>>
>>> There are no NEOs anywhere near that bright. The only
>> orbiting object
>>> that bright is the ISS. Most likely, this was a VERY
>> near Earth object,
>>> like an airplane or weather balloon.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> *******************************
>>> Chris L Peterson
>>> Cloudbait Observatory
>>> http://www.cloudbait.com
>>>
>>> On 5/9/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote:
>>>> Saw an near earth object last night _at_4:45am
>> central time. First saw it just below polaris in the
>> northern sky with a brightness like Venus at its brightest.
>> where it started was obscured by a roof. It continued in an
>> easternly direction passing the bottom of Cassiopea and
>> faded out just to its left in i think the bottom of ?Draco?
>>>> Found no postings on heavens above for an astroid
>> passing by so if im first this ones name is Lesa2012.
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Steve
>
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