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(meteorobs) Re: [IMO-News] Re: Fireball Kansas 10/13...0025 GMT
Thanks to Mark Kidger for the report and suggested ground track!
There were also a couple of eyewitness reports in his discussion
area under the title, "What was it?".
Two satellite re-entry analysts suspect a definite possibility that
this one was a re-entry from a Russian Glonass satellite launch
only hours earlier:
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/Oct-2000/0215.html
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/Oct-2000/0216.html
However, more accurate data are needed.
There's a newspaper story in the Wichita, Kansas, USA, newspaper on
this page, under the title, "Suspicious lights in the sky prove
harmless":
http://web.wichitaeagle.com/content/wichitaeagle/2000/10/14/localnews/
However, more accurate data are needed!
I've seen mentions of two or possibly three video-tapings (Abilene
and Wichita Falls, Texas, and whatever was broadcast on the Weather
Channel Friday evening [USA local time]) but have not been able to
find any online yet.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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