"click image" Osaka, Japan - Russian Launch Debris Re-Entry 29MAR2015 2015年3月29日21:48:36JSTの継続時間の長い流星 c 2015 上田昌良 Ueda / SonotaCo |
http://meteor.chicappa.jp/2015/TV_2015_03_ueda.html
SonotaCo Meteor Forum-
http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3482&sid=6faeb798a523ea30611ef78040f8267d
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Video and still imagery is available here:
http://meteor.chicappa.jp/2015/TV_2015_03_ueda.html
Judging by the reported brightness and its appearance in the video, it may have been captured in the early stages of its final descent, not long after it became self-luminous.
This re-entry is number 252 in my table of visually observed natural re-entries:
http://satobs.org/reentry/Visually_Observed_Natural_Re-entries_latest_draft.pdf
It is the 200th Russian object in the table, and the 54th 11S510 stage (by far the most common type of object in the list).
This is the 7th consecutive month with at least one known sighting of a natural decay.
Ted Molczan / Seesat-l
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