[meteorite-list] Fw: Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado

From: Jose Campos <josecamposcomet_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 22:46:23 -0000
Message-ID: <006801c7311b$54318d00$7eea16d5_at_paular2wuci4vh>

Hi Gary,

By space debris, I meant several pieces of a MAN MADE spacecraft,
desintegrating thru the Earth's atmosphere.
Sorry about the confusion.
As regarding time, a meteor's visibility lasts only a few seconds, whereas
for man made space debris, as it travells at a much slower speed, it's
burning trail becomes visible for a few minutes. The video shown on CNN is
quite spectacular.
I have seen a similar event, some 20 yrs ago (?), at night, over the Indian
Ocean, when I was walking with friends on the beac front in Durban, South
Africa. This event was seen by many people. The next day, it was reported on
south african newspapers and TV.

The visibility of a meteor, even a -14 mag fireball, (that is as bright as
the full moon), will not last longer than a few seconds, at most.
Jos? Campos

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary K. Foote" <gary at webbers.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado


I'm confused by your post. What do you mean by 'space debris'? If the time
was too
short for space debris and it was also not a meteoroid then what are you
suggesting?

Befuddled Gary

On 4 Jan 2007 at 23:21, Jose Campos wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I fully agree with Marco Langbroek's comments. It was no meteor.
> The article written by Laura Bailey (Jan 4 2007) for THE COLORADOAN,
> mentions that onlookers reported that it could be seen for about 30
> seconds.
> That is too short a time for space debris, unless if it was seen at a low
> altitude in relation to the horizon, or if it was due to some partial sky
> obstruction (clouds, trees, buildings). Usually, this kind of display
> lasts
> for some 2 to 3 minutes or even slightly longer..
> Jos? Campos
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado
>
>
> >> Dear Ron and List,
> >> Thank you Ron and all of the posters on this fall.
> >> This is a case where people had better have their
> >> geiger counters along. As Ron and others may have
> >> found out it may contain some radioactive material.
> >> Best, Dirk Ross..Tokyo
> >
> > Not likely you need a geiger counter. It is a normal Soyuz rocket stage.
> >
> > Place, track and time closely coincide with the predicted re-entry of a
> > stage of
> > the Soyuz rocket (06-063B, #29679) used to launch the French COROT space
> > telescope on December 27th from Baikonur. The sighting is only a few
> > minutes
> > later than the nominal predicted decay time, and at the correct
> > geographic
> > location and direction of movement from the last know orbit for this
> > object.
> >
> > The slow movement on the video (assuming the video was real speed)
> > corroborates
> > it was this decay rather than a meteor.
> >
> > - Marco
> >
> > -----
> > Dr Marco Langbroek
> > Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
> >
> > e-mail: meteorites at dmsweb.org
> > website: http://www.dmsweb.org
> > priv. website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek
> > -----
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