I got the phone call early this morning, from Rob Matson, giving me the horrible news. According to Rob, he was driving north on US15 in the Victorville area of the Mojave Desert when he observed the Space Shuttle Columbia early in its re-entry. Rob reported that "all appeared normal at this point in Columbia's fight path". The early morning sunlight was reflecting off of "the plasma cloud that the Space Shuttle normally forms during its decent".
Rob did not see anything abnormal occurring during the portion of the decent that he witnessed, and had no indication of the disaster that was to occur over Texas until he heard on the radio that the Space Shuttle was "still late for its arrival at the Cape"! Given the time of morning, Rob was one of the last few people who saw Columbia still in one piece before its tragic break-up and disintegration over Texas. (Please note that I didn't use the term "explosion", since it would be inaccurate and misleading.) Regretfully, Bob V. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
