(meteorobs) Shuttle re-entry as fireball reception experiment

[Thomas Dorman]

Hi.Thomas
The shuttle reenter will come in over the
Yucatan,going into a landing at the Cape.There will be
no more reenters of the U.S because of safety
concerns.
Regards
Thomas Dorman
Horizon City,Texas

--- Thomas Ashcraft <72632.1427 at compuserve.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> The space shuttle STS-114  is due to reenter Sunday
> morning August 7, 2005 
> 
> Deorbit Burn   Sunday, Aug. 7      4:44 a.m. EDT 
> 
> KSC Landing   Sunday, Aug. 7      5:46 a.m. EDT 
> 
> ( Note : the above times could change. )
> 
> 
> As a radio meteor observer in the 1990s I captured
> some reentries from my
> observatory in New Mexico.
> I believe that space shuttle reentries offer a
> unique opportunity for
> forward scatter meteor observers in terms of
> fireball studies.
> The shuttle is a known quantity of mass, speed,
> distance, time and
> altitude, etc. and could be a useful calibrator for
> radio meteor arrays.
> 
> As of Wednesday August 3rd  I am not sure of the
> coming reentry path.
> Sometimes the path is over British Columbia , or
> California, or Mexico.  It
> varies.  ( If anyone knows possible predicted paths
> or where to get this
> info please contact me.  )
> 
> I think it is worth being alert to this event as
> forward scatter
> observations might be important in many ways. (
> Needless to say. ) 
> 
> You can hear some recordings in stereo of a couple
> of previous reentries
> at:
> 
>
http://www.heliotown.com/Radio_Fireball_Observatory_SpaceShuttle_reentries.
> html
> 
> 
> Thomas Ashcraft
> Radio Fireball Observatory
> 35.50 N  105.88 W
> 
> 
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