Re: (meteorobs) FW: Texas-Oklahoma re-entry

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) FW: Texas-Oklahoma re-entry
• From: Steve Harrison <k0xp@asusdot net>
• Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 02:51:00 +0000
• In-Reply-To: <01C03771.C0D21740@cli-01-20.dial.eclipsedot net>
• Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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At 13:04 10/16/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In my opinion, the object sighted was, indeed, the re-entry of the
>Proton platform. I understand that this is a cylinder 3.7m in diameter
>and 4m long, being the casing of the Proton's 4th stage. It weighs some
>800 kg.

If this is so, perhaps something went wrong. Seems kinda strange that even
the Russkies would allow a large piece of debris to deorbit over a
populated land mass, especially the US.

SteveH
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• (meteorobs) FW: Texas-Oklahoma re-entry
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