charlie@oakhill.UUCP (Charlie Thompson) (01/24/89)
This weekend .... in the Texas skies....something reentered the atmosphere with a dazzing show of glowing debris. Anybody know what it might be? I noticed one of TS Kelso's posted spacecraft (by my orbit simulations) has decayed to a mean motion of zero! Anyway... the thing was visible from several states in the mid us continent. Help TS... what do you know?? The Rooskies no doubt! Regards, Charlie Thompson Austin, TX
pablo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Cohn) (01/24/89)
Reportedly, it was a derelict Soviet booster re-entering. It was visible across maybe 1/3 of the country (no, not here in Seattle, though we had a spectacular one like that a couple of years ago). -David "Pablo" Cohn "look to the night sky"
daniel@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (01/25/89)
From East Central Illinois: (Urbana) I believe that this may have been what my wife saw as she was driving up to pick me up from work. She was looking due West and saw a set of objects falling from the sky that left greenish tails that remained for about half a minute. There was a cluster of objects more or less falling together (heading north) with the last appearing being the brightest and leaving the most persistant tail. This was all very visible at around 7: or 8: PM local time in fairly bright city lights. I believe that this happened Friday night the 20th. -- Daniel Pommert daniel@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
kevin@gtisqr.UUCP (Kevin Bagley) (01/28/89)
In article <7043@june.cs.washington.edu> pablo@uw-june.UUCP (David Cohn) writes: >Reportedly, it was a derelict Soviet booster re-entering. It was >visible across maybe 1/3 of the country (no, not here in Seattle, >though we had a spectacular one like that a couple of years ago). Just as a matter of conincidence, there was just recently a daylight sighting of a fireball meteor observed by southern Washington (the State) and northern Oregon. Any eye-witnesses out there? I had the priveledge of seeing an extremely impressive fireball meteor about ten years ago from Everett Washington. Duration was several minutes, Flames were very obvious, and the meteor broke into four fireballs as it approached the horizon. Something my wife and I will never forget. -- _____ Kevin Bagley Global Tech. Int'l Inc., Mukilteo WA 98275 206-742-9111 )___) __ _ _ UUCP:uw-beaver!uw-nsr!uw-warp!gtisqr!kevin _/___) (__(__(_)_/_)_ ARPA:uw-nsr!uw-warp!gtisqr!kevin@beaver.cs.washington.edu _______________/ Disclaimer... "I did not say this. I am not here."