[meteorite-list] FW: Re-entry over North America

[Robert Verish]

Appears to be a quiet weekend on the List, so here are
some OT posts that may be of interest to some:  

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(meteorobs) Re-entry over North America
Ed Cannon ecannon at mail.utexas.edu 
Sun Jun 27 05:30:05 EDT 2004 

It appears pretty certain that there was an impressive
re-entry, multiple fragmenting fireballs, eastbound
over North America a little while ago: 

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0324.html 
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0325.html 
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0328.html

If so, it was a Russian upper stage, NORAD 22273,
COSPAR 92-088E. 

One non-observation maybe was due to too bright
twilight? 

It's been cloudy and rainy here most of the time for
at least a couple of weeks. I sure had hoped to try to
see JBOs, but no such luck. Congratulations to those
who did! 

Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA 

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Re: possible decay
From: Ed Cannon (ecannon at mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2004 - 00:39:21 EDT 


It appears to me that Scott Dalton and Brian Cook did
see a re-entry.  It seems to have been several minutes
earlier than given by these elements (still the latest
as of a few minutes ago):

SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
1 22273U 92088E   04178.90776223  .99999999  77010-6 
20843-2 0  5256
2 22273  46.6044 117.5580 0739211 132.0232 235.4823
14.87161965101035

Maybe Daniel Crawford and his wife did not, due to
twilight being too bright?  They were farthest north
and also farthest west by almost 15 degrees.

Scott Dalton -- 39.6731N  75.7239W
Brian Cook -- 43.6485° N, 79.5818° W
Daniel Crawford -- 45.049 -93.369

Hope to see more reports!

Ed Cannon - ecannon at mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas,
USA

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Watch for possible decay
From: Daniel Deak (dan.deak at sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jun 26 2004 - 17:54:01 EDT 

Hi everybody,

There is a BOZ motor about to reenter (#22273,
1992-088E) with an OIG predicted decay at 01:46 UTC.
It will fly over the US and southern Quebec just
before 
reentry between 01:13 and 01:25. If the altitude is
low enough, we could see something.

Note that pass time is very approximate due to
evolving elsets. This is the last 
one I just got from OIG :
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
1 22273U 92088E   04178.84030068  .99999999 -60875-6 
22795-2 0  5237
2 22273  46.6284 117.9885 0845027 132.1089 236.8926
14.61505594101027

I have an almost overhead pass at 01:23. Will be worth
watching...

Dan
-- 
Daniel Deak
representant, projet spatial Starshine
L'Avenir, Quebec

COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m.,
UTC-4:00

Site en francais sur les satellites:
French-language satellite web site :
http://www.obsat.com

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