> Here's a link you can include: > > http://www.reentrynews.com/2006063b.html > > Best wishes, > Rob
I made an image showing the position of the rocket stage at the moment of the sightings in a bit more detail than at the above URL. It is visible here: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/marcoaliaslama/satellites/06_063B.jpg Movement is from north to south along the red line. There is some (minor) uncertainty in the stage's position along it as the orbit of a decaying object changes quickly. At this moment it should be at a maximum atmospheric altitude of 130 km but likely already lower when in decay (Chris mentions 60 km). The 8 km/s Chris mentions from his all-sky data is exactly the speed an object decaying from an orbit around the earth should have. Meteors on the other hand have a minimal speed of 11.2 km/s - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 - Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
