(meteorobs) Reports of bright meteor from Queensland, Australia

[belatrix]

My local  newspaper/tv astromer liason with the local press is none 
other than Tony Beresford (I think still?) if not certainly in the 
past! So no worries of that here :-)
I think its the media personally, probably sexing it all up - 
ultimately they are responsible really? And I notice a strong hangover 
from skylab even to this day, it stuck strongly and deeply into the 
aussie psyche, especially the members of the press, and older 
generations?
The moral of this story is : don't drop old orbiting bus sized 
spacecraft on us :-) we'll never forget it!
Cheers
Kearn

On 17/05/2006, at 11:53 PM, Marco Langbroek wrote:

> Well,
>
> Does anybody know why Ozzie astronomers in public education roles are 
> so keen to deem every bright fireball "possibly space junk" rather 
> than a meteoric fireball? This appears to be the trend I noted the 
> past few years.
>
> The point is that space junk decays are relatively rare compared to 
> meteoric fireballs - so they are picking the least likely option.
>
> Moreover, they do not seem to be aware that you can *check* whether 
> something is a space junk decay or not. That stuff is being tracked! 
> Virtually everything larger than a football in Low Earth Orbit has 
> been catalogued.
>
> - Marco
>
> -----
> Dr Marco Langbroek
> Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
>