I don't understand why space junk, rather than a meteoric fireball, is almost
always being picked out as the most likely explanation by these observatory
spokesmen whenever a bright fireball has been sighted. The point is that
space
junk decays are relatively rare compared to meteoric
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From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: meteorite list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:02 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] re: Mystery Surrounds Green Meteor in Australia
I don't understand why space junk, rather than a meteoric fireball, is
almost
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:55 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] re: Mystery Surrounds
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
Meteoric fireballs occur at a rate of more than one EVERY DAY.
That may be, but you still have to consider space junk. Some fireball
sightings in the past have been confirmed space junk reentries.
I checked. There was a SL-12 debris reentry scheduled
for May 15, which may be
a
Alexander Seidel wrote:
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
If you are refering to the SL-12 r/b 2003-060F (#28199): this reportedly
decayed on May 13th and nothing decayed since.
No, I was referring to SL-12 debris (#28763) which was forcasted to
reenter on May 15.
Ron B.
2002-037B (#28763) is still in orbit.
Are you sure?
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