(meteorobs) Come on Dirk...

[Paul Goelz]

How does that "cover it"?  That is a 1.5 hour window.  You're saying 
that you believe NASA doesn't even know which orbit was its 
last?  That with all the attention to the possibility of large pieces 
surviving to the ground, they were not tracking it minute to minute 
with radar and whatever other tools are available?  What if it were 
an incoming missile?

I still find the vague statements from NASA odd.

Paul

At 09:14 AM 9/24/2011, you wrote:

>NASA STATEMENT ON UARS: "[UARS] fell back to Earth between 11:23 
>p.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 23 and 1:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 24. The Joint 
>Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California 
>said the satellite penetrated the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. 
>The precise re-entry time and location are not yet known with certainty."
>
>I think that should cover it ?
>
>Best regards,
>
>Alex
>
>On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Paul Goelz 
><<mailto:pgoelz at comcast.net>pgoelz at comcast.net> wrote:
>At 09:05 AM 9/24/2011, you wrote:
> >Any more report yet?  Could the folks on the video have simply
> >mistaken the date?
> >
> >Mark B.
> >Vail, AZ
>
>Anyone else wonder why there was/is so much uncertainty about
>where/when UARS landed?  Surely NASA knows to within a couple inches
>where it was all the way down.  If not, we don't have much of a
>missile defence system.  What appears to have been the last pass over
>Hawaii, Canada and points east was through what I have always assumed
>was a VERY well instrumented region.
>
>Paul
>
>
>Paul Goelz
>Rochester Hills, Michigan USA
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