[meteorite-list] re: Mystery Surrounds Green Meteor in Australia
Marco Langbroek
marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl
Wed May 17 14:05:30 EDT 2006
Ron Baalke wrote (about Space Junk decays):
> It is more common than you think. For example,
> in the past month, 9 pieces
> of space junk have reentered into Earth's atmosphere.
Half of this were very tiny pieces with very small RCS values, not large enough
to cause a fireball.
Meteoric fireballs occur at a rate of more than one EVERY DAY. Compared to that,
space junk decay fireballs are rare.
> I checked. There was a SL-12 debris reentry scheduled
> for May 15, which may be
> a possibility for the meteor observed in Australia.
If you are refering to the SL-12 r/b 2003-060F (#28199): this reportedly decayed
on May 13th and nothing decayed since.
- Marco
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