(meteorobs) N. Calif. Fireballs and Rocket Re-Entry

[Marco Langbroek]

Wayne,

The 6:31 UTC fireball indeed is within
20-30 minutes of a potential pass of 1992-088E over the western USA, would
anything have
survived the 2:52 UTC decay. Normally that would be too much of a
difference, but with this kind of high apogee - low perigee
orbit, such differences between predicted and real time of passage can
perhaps occur - in fact the 2:52 UTC decay was off by 6 minutes in time. The
perigee was over the US and that part of the orbit would indeed be the
most likely point to see a secondary re-entry.

I have forwarded your URL & suggestion to the sat experts on satobs, to see
whether they have a comment on it

- Marco

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