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

[Marco Langbroek]

Op 24-12-2011 20:14, Marco Langbroek schreef:
> Op 24-12-2011 19:21, dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de schreef:
>>> Just Breaking story.... hundreds of requests for this event:
>>> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/12/mbiq-indicates-large-meteor-seen-in.html
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>> 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. :-)


USSTRATCOM has now released the final TIP bulletin for #38037 (the Soyuz r/b) 
and it confirms the identification:  Reentry time for the object is quoted as 
16:25 +/- 1 minute GMT at position 49 deg N, 7 deg E.

- Marco

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Dr Marco Langbroek  -  SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands.

Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com
Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek
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