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(meteorobs) Re: Fireball or satellite reentry over India?
And sure enough, the reentry was almost immediately identified.
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From: Tony Beresford <aberesford@iprimus.com.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:42:43 +0930
Subject: Re: [ASTRO] metero shower over local sky !
At 23:26 19/04/00 , vivek soley wrote:
>...
>I will bring you further details as soon as I get them. Mean time any guess?
Dont have to guess VIVEK, it was the decay of a proton rocket used to launch
the SEsat satellite a few days ago from Baikonur.
Here is Alan Pickup's comment about it from his posting on
the satellite observers list.
#26244 = 00- 19 B = SESat Proton r
Against yesterday's prediction, this was running 20 seconds early at the
equator crossing time implied by the latest, and possibly final, elset:
SESat Proton r 140 x 134 km
1 26244U 00019B 00110.60205439 .17366078 12708-4 16759-3 0 193
2 26244 51.6388 162.6769 0004646 272.4819 214.0486 16.50907590 288
I show this decaying to the S of port Elizabeth, South Africa, at Apr 19
16:38 +-30m (37.7 S, 27.2 E). The track would carry it over Madagascar
and onwards to central India (Nagpur) at 16:57 UTC. SpaceCom's final
notice, just posted, has the decay just a little later at Apr 19 16:46
+-37m near 24.1 S, 42.8 E.
My predicted elset for the final rev:
SESat Proton r 130 x 126 km
1 26244U 00019B 00110.64125050 .43968281 17345+1 24776-3 0 90195
2 26244 51.6375 162.4513 0003528 272.6502 87.3094 16.54400612 292
More details at http://www.wingardot demon.codot uk/satevo/dkwatch/
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Tony Beresford
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