[meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado

[Marco Langbroek]

> Dear Ron and List,
> Thank you Ron and all of the posters on this fall.
> This is a case where people had better have their
> geiger counters along. As Ron and others may have
> found out it may contain some radioactive material.
> Best, Dirk Ross..Tokyo 

Not likely you need a geiger counter. It is a normal Soyuz rocket stage.

Place, track and time closely coincide with the predicted re-entry of a stage of 
the Soyuz rocket (06-063B, #29679) used to launch the French COROT space 
telescope on December 27th from Baikonur. The sighting is only a few minutes 
later than the nominal predicted decay time, and at the correct geographic 
location and direction of movement from the last know orbit for this object.

The slow movement on the video (assuming the video was real speed) corroborates 
it was this decay rather than a meteor.

- Marco

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Dr Marco Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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