> If you are refering to the SL-12 r/b 2003-060F (#28199): this reportedly > decayed on May 13th and nothing decayed since.
I believe NORAD is fairly reliable with these informations, and then again most (if not all) of the classified near earth orbit satellites for military purposes, for which no two-line-element data sets from NASA are officially available, are under "visual control" from a bunch of dedicated satellite trackers worldwide by virtue of their usually big dimensions and hence brightness alone (see e.g. the heavens-above site on the internet). This means almost any real optically spectacular decay from artificial orbit should well be "judgeable" against natural fireballs, and as the satellite orbital parameters are well known until very shortly before the end of lifetime (...where they still won´t change very dramatically to produce a very different orbit), there are quite narrow constraints when judging about the origin of a notable fireball phenomenon - as to whether it was caused by a decaying satellite or a big meteor. Alex Berlin/Stade, Germany ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list