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(meteorobs) {MPML} Damn! (fwd)





I am pretty sure he witnessed the space shuttle re-entry. See the following
url

http://spaceflight.nasadot gov/realdata/groundtracs/

 Tom Ashcraft



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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:48:46 +0000
From: James Roe <jamesroe@jamesroe.com>
To: mpml@yahoogroups.com
Subject: {MPML} Damn!

I probably missed the sight of my life tonight.  I was inside reducing data
while the telescope and camera toiled away making another exposure when I
heard a 'boom' about 0715 UT.  'What the hell was that' I wondered, so I
stepped outside to check on the observatory.  There was a train, presumably
from a bolide or piece of space junk (Mir?), from horizon to horizon.
Roughly from just North of East to just South of West (or vice versa?).  It
lasted a good five minutes or more.  I roused my wife from a deep slumber
and she was able to see the faded remnant in the West.

I suppose it will be on the news channels tomorrow, but does anyone know
what it was?

Jim Roe
732 Oaxaca
(W97, N17)"


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