[meteorite-list] UARS reentry update

Matson, Robert D. ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com
Fri Sep 23 19:27:23 EDT 2011


UARS reentry looks to be shifting slightly later, so I've extended the
ground track predictions out to 06:00 UT. Here are the latest
times/locations:

September 24, 2011 (UT)

04:00 Just east of Somoa  146 km
04:18:30-04:20 Washington state  140 km
04:20-04:24:30 Western Canada  141-143 km
04:26-04:28 Quebec  143 km
04:40 Southern Morocco/N. Western Sahara  138 km
04:40:30-04:42 Mauritania  138 km
04:42-04:44 Mali  137 km
04:44-04:45 Burkino Faso  137 km
04:45-04:46 Benin  137 km
04:51-04:53 Angola  140 km
04:53-04:54 NE Namibia  141-142 km
04:54-04:55:30 Botswana  143 km
04:55:30-04:57:30 South Africa  143-145 km
05:19 NW corner of Tasmania  146 km
05:20 SE-most Australian coast  144 km
05:26 NW edge of New Caledonia  137 km
05:27 Vanuatu  136 km
05:49-05:54 British Columbia/Alberta/Saskatchewan/Manitoba  139-141 km
05:56-05:59 Quebec  140 km
06:00 Newfoundland  139 km

Note that for those in Southern California, UARS should be briefly
visible
low in the southwest (under Scorpius) rising around 7:44 pm PDT this
evening
and going into the earth's shadow only 2 minutes later about 6 degrees
to
the lower right of Antares.

--Rob




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