(meteorobs) Come on Dirk...

[Marco Langbroek]

Op 24-9-2011 15:10, Paul Goelz schreef:
> 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.

In all fairness: missile defense is not conducted by NASA. NASA is a civilian 
agency. Missile defense is DoD, with NRO. And those guys do not easily share data.

- Marco

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Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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