[Homestead] Fireball

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Wed Feb 4 12:00:33 EST 2009


Interesting...thanks for posting this Marie.  That linked to a cool site 
that gives re-entry data.  According to the ground tracks, I could not 
have seen the Centaur..what I saw matched the Delta III more, but that 
hasn't crashed yet.  Oh well...
There is so much junk up there.  If someone could figure out how to 
clean up orbital junk safely, they'd be a bazillionaire.

Marie McHarry wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:06 AM, EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> They did not see it. :(
> 
> Too bad as there was an alert that it was coming:
> 
> FIREBALL ALERT: During the next 48 hours, two big pieces of space
> debris are expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere: a 2000 kg Centaur
> rocket body on Feb. 3rd and a 2500 kg Delta III rocket body on Feb.
> 4th. People living along the reentry ground tracks should be alert for
> fireballs. Ground tracks: Centaur, Delta III.
> 
>>From http://bunik.blogspot.com/2009/02/fireball-alert.html
> 
> You can look for the second one tonight.
> 
> Marie
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