Argentina Meteor NOT! 26SEP2011

NOTE-  Many of you are landing on the wrong page for the Argentina Bolide Event of 21APR2013-

This is the event that you may be seaching for-

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2013/04/argentina-bolide-meteor-21apr2013.html

Argentina has NO Meteor or Satellite Crash 26SEP2011


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Several readers from Argentina wrote asking about an explosion that destroyed some
houses, killed one person and injured 6 others.-----


One Reader writes:
Tell him to find his Nasa satellite or meteorite fell in Argentina, one person died, the explosion was heard several miles away:

http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/vivienda-exploto-Esteban-Echeverria_0_561543993.html

http://america.infobae.com/notas/34369-Cayo-un-meteorito-en-Buenos-Aires

some days before (18/9) , people rec this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMP4Jn162uk

My reply:

Hello,  I have viewed the bottom video; it is a video of a jet aircraft with contrail taken at near sunset, thus the clouds are lit.  The video is NOT  from the same day (video is dated 9/18), thus totally unrelated.

I have read the newspaper reports about the house and viewed the photos.  It is my opinion that this was not a meteorite impact.  The damage is inconsistent with that of a meteorite impact;  there are no remaining meteorite fragments.

The UARS satellite fell to Earth last week so there is no possibility that this was cause by the UARS satellite; there is no satellite wreckage debris reported.

The most obvious explanation is a gas leak, chemical explosion,or  some other accident source.  Another possibility is that it was caused by an explosive. 

Thank you for sharing this information with me. Best Regards, LunarMeteorite*Hunter...Tokyo

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Isabel from Brazil writes:

I live in Brazil and i dont speak english. But, with google translate i can read the blog;

This morning i see this text in Spanish, because the meteor is failing in Argentina.

sorry my bad english

http://america.infobae.com/notas/34369-Argentina-investiga-la-caida-de-un-meteorito-en-un-barrio-de-Buenos-Aires

use google traslate spanish to english to read

Thank you Isabel!

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Another Reader from Buenos Aires, Argentina wrote:

 Hi! I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina and today the breaking news cover
a possible ball of fire coming from the sky that destroyed some
houses, killed one person and injured 6 others. Local authorities are
investigating this issue. Here you'll find some links to this topic:

Local newspaper in English:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/79933/house-explosion-kills-1-injures-8

Local newspaper in spanish with photos/video:
http://perfil.com.ar/fotogaleria/?filename=contenidos/2011/09/26/noticia_0016.html
http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1409399-explosion-en-una-vivienda-de-esteban-echeverria
http://www.infobae.com/notas/607758-Un-meteorito-provoco-la-tragedia.html
http://www.infobae.com/notas/607728-Investigan-las-causas-de-la-misteriosa-explosion-en-Esteban-Echeverria.html
http://www.clarin.com/ciudades/vivienda-exploto-Esteban-Echeverria_0_561543993.html

Could be this delayed debris coming from UARS?  

Reply: No the satellite had already fallen on the 23/24.  There are no reports of wreckage or debris at the house site in Argentina indicating that anything fell from the sky.

Possible Meteorite Strike Kills One; Destroys Homes in Argentina
UFODigest
By Scott Corrales, One woman died and six other people were injured as a result of the event. A local resident told Radio 10 that the explosion was caused by a flaming object that fell from the sky and completely destroyed a house and several cars. ...

NASA UARS "Bus" -- Skylab From the Past 23SEP2011

UARS "Bus" -- Blast From the Past 23SEP2011

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Live SAT-Tracker for UARS 
(link here)
Once you are on the live Track Page ----
Click on "Real Time Tracking" BAR on the right side of map.
You may have to zoom "out" on the MAP to find the current location

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UARS Track Calculations by Dr. Rob Matson
Here are my calculations of land possibilities
from 23 September 20:00 UT to 24 September 00:00 UT (1pm-5pm PDT,
4pm-8pm EDT) and the estimated altitude at the time of each country
overflight:
September 23, 2011
20:05-20:06 Papua/New Guinea 158 km
20:16 New Zealand 169 km
20:38-20:48 Chile/Argentina/Bolivia/Brazil 152 km
21:04 Southern England 159 km
21:06 Denmark 160 km
21:07 Southernmost Sweden 160 km
21:08-21:17 Russia 159 km
21:17-21:25 China 156 km
21:25-21:28 Vietnam 155 km
21:30-21:34 Malaysia/Indonesia 155 km
21:36-21:43 Australia 159-166 km
21:44 Tasmania 167 km
22:12-22:15 Peru 151 km
22:15-22:17 Colombia 150 km
22:17-22:18 Venezuela 150 km
22:35 Scotland 159 km
22:38 Sweden 159 km
22:39-22:48 Russia 159-156 km
22:48-22:49 Afghanistan 155 km
22:49-22:50 Pakistan 155 km
22:50-22:54 India 154 km
23:08-23:09 Southwest tip of Australia 162 km
23:47 Honduras 148 km
23:49 Cuba 149 km
23:50 Bahamas 149 km
23:58 Eastern Newfoundland 154 km

In my opinion, reentry is unlikely during this 4-hour stretch, but I
wanted to get it out there in case the orbital decay rate suddenly
accelerates in the next few hours. I will post predictions for the
more-likely 0:00 UT - 4:00 UT window a little later using the
freshest orbital elements I can get.September 24, 2011 (UT)
00:05-00:06 Scotland  157 km
00:08 Denmark  157 km
00:08-00:10 Poland  157 km
00:10-00:12 Ukraine  156 km
00:14-00:15 NE Turkey  154 km
00:15-00:18 Iran  154-152 km
00:19-00:20 East Oman  152 km
01:16-01:18 Mexico  148 km
01:18-01:20 Texas  148 km
01:20-01:21 Arkansas  149 km
01:21 SE Missouri  149 km
01:22 Illinois  150 km
01:22:30  NW Indiana  150 km
01:23  Michigan  151 km
01:24  Ontario, Canada  152 km
01:25-01:28  Quebec  152-154 km
01:36 Ireland  155 km
01:37 England  155 km
01:37:30-01:38:30 NE France  154 km
01:39 S. Germany/W. Austria  154 km
01:39:30 NE Italy  154 km
01:40-01:41 Slovenia/Croatia/Bosnia/Herzegovina  153 km
01:42 Greece
01:43 Off east-coast of Crete  152 km
01:45-01:46 NE Egypt  151 km
01:46-01:49 Red Sea  149 km
01:49-01:50 Yemen  149 km
01:50-01:53 Somalia  149 km
02:32 Tahiti  148 km
02:47-02:48 Southern California  144 km
02:48 Southernmost tip of Nevada  144 km
02:48-02:50 Utah  145 km
02:50-02:51 Wyoming  146 km
02:51:30 NW South Dakota  147 km
02:52 North Dakota  147 km
02:53 NW Minnesota  147 km
02:53-02:55 Ontario, Canada
02:56-02:58 Quebic  150 km
03:08-03:09 Spain  149 km
03:10-03:12 NE Algeria  148 km
03:12-03:14:30 Western Libya  147 km
03:15-03:18 Chad  146 km
03:18-03:20 Border of Sudan/Central African Republic  147 km
03:20-03:21 Democratic Republic of the Congo  147 km
03:22 Rwanda/Burundi  148 km
03:22-03:24:30 Tanzania  149 km
03:24:30-03:26 Somalia  151 km
03:28 Southern tip of Madagascar  154 km
04:00 Just south of Somoa  146 km

A Falling Satellite Catches the Popular Imagination
By KENNETH CHANG
New York Times 
A dead hulk of a NASA satellite the size of a bus is skimming the top of the atmosphere, and as air molecules bounce off, its orbit is decaying until gravity will finally pull it down as a fiery meteor. To be specific, 26 large pieces of the Upper ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/science/space/23satellite.html

Iridium Satellite Space Crash May Produce Future Meteors? 11FEB09

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/science/space/12satellite.html?hp

Debris Spews Into Space in Collision of Satellites

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

Published: February 11, 2009

For decades, space experts have warned of orbits around the planet growing so crowded that two satellites might one day slam into one another, producing swarms of treacherous debris. It happened Tuesday. And the whirling fragments could pose a threat to the International Space Station, orbiting 215 miles up with three astronauts onboard, though officials said the risk was now small. “This is a first, unfortunately,” Nicholas L. Johnson, chief scientist for orbital debris at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said of the collision. It happened some 490 miles above northern Siberia, at around noon Eastern time. Two communications satellites — one Russian, one American — cracked up in silent destruction. In the aftermath, military radars on the ground tracked large amounts of debris going into higher and lower orbits. “Nothing to this extent” has ever happened before, Mr. Johnson said. “We’ve had three other accidental collisions between what we call catalog objects, but theywere all much smaller than this,” the objects always very small and moderate insize.The communication satellites, he added, “are two relatively big objects. ”The American satellite was an Iridium, one of a constellation of 66 space craft. Liz DeCastro, corporate communications director of Iridium Satellite, based in Bethesda, Md., said that the satellite weighed about 1,200 pounds and that itsbody was more than 12 feet long, not including large solar arrays.In a statement, the company said that it had “lost an operational satellite” on Tuesday, apparently after it collided with “a nonoperational” Russian satellite. “Although this event has minimal impact on Iridium’s service,” the statement added, “the company is taking immediate action to address the loss. ” The company’s hand-held phones can be used anywhere around the globe to give users voice and data communications. Mr. Johnson said the Russian satellite was presumably nonfunctional. Officials at the Russian Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment. Mr. Johnson said the United States military’s tracking radars had yet to determine the number of detectable fragments. “It’s going to take a while,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult to discriminate all those objects when they’re really close together. And so over the next couple of days we’ll have a much better understanding.”At a minimum, Mr. Johnson added, “I think we’re talking many, many dozens, if not hundreds.” The debris could threaten the space station and its astronaut crew, he said. “There are actually debris from this event which we believe are going through space station altitude already,” he said. The risk to the station, Mr. Johnson added, “is going to be very, very small.” In the worst case, he said, “We’ll just dodge them if we have to. It’s the small things you can’t see that are the ones that can do you harm. ”In Houston, International Space Station controllers have often adjusted its orbit to get out of the way of speeding space debris, which can move so incredibly fast that even small pieces pack a destructive wallop. John Yembrick, a NASA spokesman in Washington, said the agency now judged therisk of collision with the speeding fragments to be “very small.” The threat, headded, is defined and acceptable. Mr. Johnson, who works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the new swarms of whirling debris might also eventually pose a threat to other satellites in an orbital chain reaction. “What we’re doing now is trying to quantify that risk,” he said. “That’s a workin progress. It’s only been 24 hours. We put first things first,” meaning the station and preparing for the next shuttle mission.

William Harwood contributed reporting