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Re: (meteorobs) FWD Re: Seattle fireball?

Hello Brent,
Below is a messsage which was posted to the meteorite list last weekend,
shortly after the event you witnessed.  It did not take very long for the
word to get out to the meteor and meteorite community that this was a
re-entry, after which we have not focused on it any further.  The AMS staff
is currently investigating a bona fide meteor fireball which occured over
the New England area the following Monday.

I'm sure that this was much more exciting in person, and I can see why you
went looking for additional information.

Forwarded Message:


>Return-Path: <meteorite-list-request@meteoritecentral.com>
>Resent-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:35:25 -0500 (EST)
>X-Envelope-To: richardson@digitalexp.com
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>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 17:33:28 -0700
>From: kc7rcy <kc7rcy@geocities.com>
>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: Nov 14 bolide
>Resent-Message-ID: <"YvA7E.A.5oD.v9jb0"@mu.pair.com>
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>
>This is from the Amateur Satellite Mailing List.  Phillip Chien is an
>expert opn the international space scene.
>
>>Tonight, Friday 14 Nov., between about 9:09 and 9:10:30 pm PST (15 Nov.
>
>>05:09:00 - 05:10:30 UTC), I saw what appeared to be a spectacular
>>re-entry and breakup of an orbiting object.
>
><snip> fantastic description by Peter.
>
>Yup - you saw a satellite reentry.  Only the Art Bell show could claim
>that
>it was a UFO!  (not that I'd ever listen, but based on another message
>posted to -BB tonight).
>
>Sorry folks - this is an IFO - the upper stage of a Proton rocket.
>
>Here's the last set of keps I had for this particular piece of space
>debris -
>
>Kupon SL-12                                     116 x 115 km
>1 25047U 97070C   97319.32348888  .70487894  62570+1  21058-3 0 90169
>2 25047  51.6252 301.6530 0000944 269.4447  90.5444 16.59094197   436
>
>The Kupon is a Russian commercial geosync satellite owned by a banking
>system.  (Karl Marx must be spinning in his grave!)
>
>
>Congrats to everybody in Washington and Vancouver who got to see this!
>I
>had expected the upper stage to remain in orbit a bit longer, which
>would
>have resulted in a pass over my area.  *sigh* - my loss was your gain.
>
>
>
>Philip Chien [M1959.05.31/31.145//KC4YER@amsat.org]
>
>
>
>
>

end of forwarded message.


James Richardson
Graceville, Florida
richardson@digitalexp.com

Operations Manager / Radiometeor Project Coordinator
American Meteor Society (AMS)
http://www.serve.com/meteors/
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