(meteorobs) Texas Fireball

[Marco Langbroek]

Pat Branch schreef:

> Both meteors and manmade objects at this low an altitude would have 
> roughly the same terminal velocity Mass*(Gravity-Drag).

Sorry, but you are wrong here. Any meteoric fireball will be at least 11 km/s 
(and usually -much- faster than that). Decaying satellite debrisonly 7.5 km/s.

Also: to produce a seizable fireball at a 7.5 km/s velocity, certainly one 
visible in daylight, it has to be quite big. I expect any debris of the 
satellite collision to be rather small, not enough for a seizable fireball.

- Marco

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Dr Marco Langbroek  -  SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands.
e-mail: sattrackcam at wanadoo.nl

Cospar 4353 (Leiden):   52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL
Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL
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