(meteorobs) Fw: [RASCals] near Toronto, Ontario

[C.L. Hall]

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----- Original Message -----
 From: J. Randy Attwood <randy.attwood at rogers.com>
 To: RASCals Discussion List <rascals at lists.rasc.ca>
 Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:06 AM
 Subject: Re: [RASCals] FW: (meteorobs) Re-entry over North America
 
 It was very impressive.

I was out at the Forks of the Credit provincial park last night with about
15 members of the Toronto and Hamilton RASC, North York AA and Mississauga
AS.
At 10:52 I was looking in the area of M104 and saw an 'airplane' pass
through my finder's  field of view.
I looked up and realized it was several objects and it was no airplane.  I
then thought it was a bolide but was going to slow.
It was something reentering and the 6 or so objects through binoculars
looked very much like the Columbia entry - very spooky.

It went through Scorpius and Sagittarius and then set over the horizon.

Randy Attwood
Mississauga, Ontario


At 09:39 PM 6/26/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Someone reported seeing a multiple meteor re-entry slow moving etc.  I
suspect it was the re-entry of the Russian upper stage as noted below.

Ed Majden
EMO Sandia Bolide Detection Station
Courtenay, B.C.

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From: Ed Cannon <ecannon at mail.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 04:30:05 +0000
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: (meteorobs) Re-entry over North America
It appears pretty certain that there was an impressive re-entry,
eastbound multiple fragmenting fireballs, over North America a
little while ago:

http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0324.html
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2004/0325.html

If so, it was a Russian upper stage, NORAD 22273, COSPAR 92-088E.

One non-observation maybe was due to too bright twilight?

It's been cloudy and rainy here most of the time for at least
a couple of weeks.  I sure had hoped to try to see JBOs, but
no such luck.  Congratulations to those who did!

Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA

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