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Topic: And out your left window, you can see the flaming debris...
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-28-2007 11:02 AM
   
...of a Progress spacecraft.Jet's flaming space junk scare quote:
The pilot of a Lan Chile Airbus A340, which was travelling between Santiago, Chile, and Auckland, New Zealand, notified air traffic controllers at Auckland Oceanic Centre after seeing flaming space junk hurtling across the sky just five nautical miles in front of and behind his plane about 10pm.
The timing may coincide with Progress M-58's reentry: Progress spacecraft packed with garbage dumped in Pacific Ocean quote:
Mission Control near Moscow has told Itar-Tass “debris of the Progress M-58 cargo spacecraft and garbage fragments from the International Space Station were dumped in the designated area of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of four kilometers at 03:31 Moscow time."
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-28-2007 11:23 AM
If the reported times are correct, then the flaming debris was not from the Progress. According to ITAR-TASS, M-58 reentered at 2331 GMT Mar 27. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the jetliner reported seeing the debris at 1000 GMT Mar 27, 13 hours earlier. According to a post on NASASpaceFlight.com, New Zealand television is quoting Russian officials as saying it was a "defunct satellite". |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 01:51 PM
The link is good for a week before the Herald takes it offline...40 seconds from air disaster Craig
Wellington, NZ PS - note that this is a web-link so the story is regularly updated rather than remaining the story that is originally reported earlier in the day. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-28-2007 02:07 PM
Anatoly Jak has put together a mini-timeline of events as they are known for the jetliner's near miss with reentering debris and Progress M-58's departure and reentry from the ISS: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/ |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 04:40 PM
And the NZ press has just been updated offering another possibility...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4009040a10.html I'm supposed to be on a plane today... |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-30-2007 09:07 AM
From James Oberg on MSNBC: quote:
The sensational tale of the falling Russian satellite and the Chilean airliner lasted only a few hours before it was debunked — but the erroneous connection of the roaring fireball with a Russian space shot was entirely reasonable, given Chile’s long and unusual history of being on the receiving end of Russian space spectaculars.The reports from New Zealand described fireballs that passed within 6 miles (9 kilometers) of a Lan Chile Airbus 340 jet en route from Santiago to Auckland. The crew even claimed they could hear the roar of the passing objects.
Continue reading Fireball fears stoked by space history |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 03-30-2007 09:22 AM
Exciting ! |
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