Hi Rob, The USAF is saying that the object WAS NOT man made! Check out the link:http://wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1636442
I am pretty sure that the object was out over the ocean when it terminated. Mystery, mystery! All the best, everybody. Greg -----Original Message----- >From: "Matson, Robert D." <[email protected]> >Sent: Mar 30, 2009 5:35 PM >To: Greg Redfern <[email protected]>, [email protected] >Subject: Chesapeake "bolide" = Soyuz SL-4 rocket body (#34670) > >Hi Greg, > >I concur with the reentering booster explanation. It was definitely >USSPACECOM catalog #34670, international designation 2009-015B, the >Soyuz SL-4 upper stage. As seen from Virginia Beach, VA, the reentry >track would have been highest in the northeast and heading toward >the southeast horizon. (The rocket body was on a descending node.) >The reentry path went right over Washington, D.C., the Chesapeake >Bay and the southern DelMarVa peninsula. > >--Rob > >(Feel free to forward to the Met List) > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg >Redfern >Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:42 AM >To: [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded > >The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian >Expedition 19 booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1636442. > >All the best, > >Greg ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
