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Re: (meteorobs) WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT OBJECT!! (fwd)



At 13:22 12/08/01 , Michael Boschat wrote:
>Hello:
>
> August 11/12, 2001  lat N44d 36'  W63d 36'
>
>Gezzz.. I decided to come to Dal and from about 0342 UT to 0344 UT
> a BRIGT orange -red object about  -8 mag tranversed the sky with a trail
>from NW to SE roughly. I frantically tried to
>get a photo of it and possibly did at different parts...
>
>A re-entry of something???
Mike was in fact lucky enough to see the re-entry of this object
SL-6 R/B(1)
1 26868U 01030B   01223.94791043  .15980290  87147-5  37146-3 0   877
2 26868  62.7978 162.2069 0017566 143.7312 215.4817 16.44606988  3668
a recent launching that put a new molniya comsat into orbit. It was
decaying about now. US spacecom predicted decay at around 0120UT, aug 12.
the above element set gives a NW SE pass over dalhousie at about 0338UT.
given the expected accuracy in orbital elements close to decay, the time
discrpancy is seen to no discrepancy, and the coincidence in direction
clinches it. 
tony beresford
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