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

[Wayne Watson]

Hello, Marco. I thought I'd mention your later e-mail to me indicating that the N. 
Calif. event was not from a spent rocket. I'd also like to mention that my Sandia 
partner, Dave Kenyon, did find a image his camera took that show the same meteor. 
Eventually, we will post this. Actually, Bill Allen has plans to publish it in his 
newsletter, A C/C, for today. I don't know if he got it in time. If not, it will 
appear within the next few days.

Marco Langbroek wrote:

> 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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