[meteorite-list] Chinese Rocket Body Disintegrates over North America

[Linton Rohr]

Thanks Ron, Rob,
There's a nice video by KSL-TV photographer Mark Wetzel posted here:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=33593153
Linton

-----Original Message----- 
From: Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:47 PM
To: Ron Baalke ; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chinese Rocket Body Disintegrates overNorth 
America

Hi Ron/All,

As with Cosmos 2495 last year, I spent several hours this morning pulling 
Doppler data
from a dozen radars within range of last night's reentry. Unlike bolides of 
late,
reentries have been showing up great on radar, and this one was no 
exception.
I don't know if the CZ-4B rocket body is large enough to generate debris 
that
survives to the ground, but if so there are two long clusters of candidates 
in
western Montana. I'll be forwarding my composite image to Spaceweather.com
in case they want to post it there.  --Rob

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From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On 
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:34 AM
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America


In case they are any fireball sightings....

Space Weather News for Feb. 24, 2015
http://spaceweather.com

Last night, Feb. 23-24, observers across the western half of North America 
witnessed a spectacular cluster of bright lights in the sky.  It was the 
re-entry and disintegration of a Chinese rocket body.  Coincidentally, a 
geomagnetic storm was in progress at the time and more than one photographer 
caught the rocket's debris cutting across curtains of Northern Lights.
Visit http://spaceweather.com for photos and more information.




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