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RE: (meteorobs) FW: Texas-Oklahoma re-entry
Steve,
I think the point I was trying to make (but in my sleepy stupor got
sidetracked from) is that an object that size will be completely
incinerated during it's travel through the atmosphere. Only the very
largest man made objects (Skylab, MIR, etc) will have pieces survive to the
ground. So there was no danger. If you have control over an object, such as
a satellite you are deorbiting, it is prudent to dump it into the Pacific
so there is no risk; however we rocket shootin' humans do not take the same
care with the launch vehicles, since they are destroyed "up there".
Wayne
At 20:30 10/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>...a rocket body travelling at a slower
>speed would only cover ~400 km, and is likely to produce lots of pieces
>that fall off.
... which brings us (or, at least *me*) back to the question: did
something go wrong for that body to deorbit over such a sensitive land mass
as the continental US???
SteveH
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