[meteorite-list] Uganda fall (reentry)

From: Matson, Robert <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:23 2004
Message-ID: <AF564D2B9D91D411B9FE00508BF1C86901B4E317_at_US-Torrance.mail.saic.com>

Hi Ryan,

> Does anyone know of this fall in Uganda in March?
> http://www.africaonline.com/jive/viewThread.jsp?forum=6&thread=35135

This was actually not a meteorite fall, but something much more
rare -- a satellite reentry. Better yet, a large piece of this
reentry was recovered. I posted a message to Meteorite Central
about this back in mid-April, along with a link (still live) to
an image of the recovered satellite debris. Message is attached
below. --Rob

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Hi All,

I thought you all might be interested in seeing the metallic sphere
that was recovered from that observed reentry over Uganda earlier
this month. This piece of debris was from the GStar 1 Ariane 3
rocket body (USSPACECOM #15679) which was launched in
1985. I've posted an image of the sphere at:

<http://members.cox.net/mojave_meteorites/uganda.jpg>

I obtained this image by decompressing one that Seesat member
Antonin Vitek posted on his site at:

<http://www.lib.cas.cz/www/space.40/uganda_ufo1.JPG>

Antonin obtained the picture (which appears to have been
inadvertently compressed horizontally 2:1) via UNO channels
thanks to Petr Lala, COPUOS.

Best,
Rob
Received on Tue 27 Aug 2002 05:23:21 PM PDT