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PS to Re: (meteorobs) Fireball Report 12/2/2003 2:15PM Pacific Time, Santa Paula, CA (fwd)
Post Scriptum: some more backgrounds on this launch can be found at:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac164/
The map with the launch trajectory fits with an object going from W-SW to
SE.
- Marco
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoodot nl>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball Report 12/2/2003 2:15PM Pacific Time,
Santa Paula, CA (fwd)
> Hello,
>
> This might not be a fireball. Assuming this should be 2:15 *am rather than
> *pm, this could very well be the 2 december 10:04 UTC launch of an
> Atlas-centaur rocket from Vandebergh, which brought two new classified,
> presumably NOSS satellites in orbit yesterday.
>
> See also:
>
> http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Dec-2003/0014.html
> http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Dec-2003/0015.html
> http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Dec-2003/0017.html
>
> - Marco
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