(meteorobs) Major Event Meteor or Space Junk Europe (Germany)

[dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de]

> Just Breaking story.... hundreds of requests for this event:
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/12/mbiq-indicates-large-meteor-seen-in.html

It's already obvious that these reports - as well as the panicky
eyewitness video http://yfrog.com/7251452653z - refer to the reentry of
the upper stage of the Soyuz that launched the last ISS crew increment:
http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-news-decay-of-soyuz-rb-stage.html
(found this all out within minutes thanks to Twitter, by the way). Funnily
a dutchman was aboard, and now the debris has burned up over the
Netherlands. :-)

Daniel

http://twitter.com/cosmos4u