> that must be a ghost... you are following, I think. There are a lot of ghosts on the internet.
Sterling K. Webb --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 17:15 UT slow,bright Mediterranean bolide Hi Sterling, listees, I believe Rob has suggested that this rocket part (3rd booster stage) has re-entered in the reported event, so that must be a ghost on the on-line satellite tracking program you are following, I think. The satellite itself is probably quite operational at the moment. Anyway, let me take this opportunity to correct the time of the event today July 8 2008 from incorectly 5:15 UT to corectly 17:15 UT. Just a little excitement as I was hearing about this... Best wishes, Doug still can't believe how fast Rob got that one ... -----Original Message----- From: Sterling K. Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rob Matson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 7:41 pm Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide Hi, List, You can watch it in realtime position at: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=31602 So, why was it leaving a luminous trail: "a bright object that left a long trail"? Hmmm. Answering my own question, it is listed as one of "satellites with periodically varying brightness." It must have "flashed." Sterling K. Webb ---------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:15 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide Hi List, Rob, and everyone who held their breath on this one, Please read the other half of the story - from none other than our favorite satellite and comet bagger, Rob Matson !!! Best wishes and better luck next time:( Doug PS God help us if Rob ever defects ... thanks again and I trust it was good work! =========================== Hi Doug, Please feel free to forward this to the Meteorite list for me... I just did a quick check on this, suspecting it might be a satellite re-entry. ... it was travelling east-to-west!", let me add that it was actually ~because~ it was travelling east to west AND passing over Israel that a lightbulb went off in my head. Israeli satellites are always launched in retrograde orbits, and I thought it would be an amusing case of karma if this turned out to be one of their own. Well, in short, it was: Shavit R/B, USSPACECOM #31602, launched some time in 2007. I just plotted its trajectory as seen from Jerusalem, and bingo. --Rob ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
