[meteorite-list] Saudi Arabia rocket body reentry

[Alexander Seidel]

Cool observation, cool interpretation, cool identification!
P.S.: wish I had ever personally seen a satellite reentry in 
my former life as a visual satellite observer in the pre-
internet-years, but unfortunately wasn´t lucky with that...

Thumbs up guys,
Alex
Berlin/Germany



> Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Januar 2014 um 19:58 Uhr
> Von: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON at leidos.com>
> An: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>, drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Saudi Arabia rocket body reentry
>
> Hi All,
> 
> Mike is correct. It's the reentry of the CZ-3B rocket body
> (International
> Designation 2008-028B) that launched Chinasat-9 back in June 2008. The
> reentry track goes right over central Saudi Arabia:
> 
> http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/upcoming-reentries-2/
> 2008-028b/
> 
> --Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
> Michael Farmer
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 6:57 AM
> To: drtanuki
> Cc: meteorite-list
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Saudi Bolide? 16JAN2013 update/ videos
> butunverified
> 
> seems way too slow, i think rocket debris re-entry.
> 
> Michael Farmer
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Jan 17, 2014, at 7:35 AM, drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > List,
> > Saudi Bolide? 16JAN2013 update/ videos but unverified
> > 
> >
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/01/mbiq-detects-saudi-arab
> ia-fireball.html
> > 
> > Dirk Ross...Tokyo
> 
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