Hi All, Regarding reentering manmade satellites or "space junk", Ron replied:
> It is more common than you think. For example, in the past > month, 9 pieces of space junk have reentered into Earth's > atmosphere. Bolide events outnumber manmade debris reentries by thousands to one. How many on this list have ever seen a satellite reentry? I'd be surprised if the answer is more than one. On the other hand, I think pretty much everyone has seen at least one bolide in his/her lifetime. I've seen more than a dozen, and despite ACTIVELY looking for satellite reentries -- which are predictable, by the way -- I've never seen one. Ron checked for potential matches to the latest Australian event: > There was a SL-12 debris reentry scheduled for May 15, which > may be a possibility for the meteor observed in Australia. It's good that you checked, but in this case it was probably overkill: the trajectory was from east to west, eliminating all but a handful of highly retrograde objects. --Rob ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
