Fascinating, yet almost macabre commentary. Have any other list members experienced debris "raining" upon their homes? or had debris land in their yard? thanks chuck ferriday ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Hoppers" <hopper@lakecountry.net> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Normal Shuttle Reentry > I live on the northern edge of the debris field. I have really enjoyed this > group but have never had much to contribute. From my observations, I know > at least some of the tiles or some other parts where smashed to little > grit-sized/dust-sized pieces before hitting the ground. Most of > grit-sized/small gravel-sized pieces hit the ground within the first hour > after the accident. The dust-sized pieces stayed aloft for much of the day. > I heard the shuttle as it was breaking apart at 8:00am CST. The surface > windspeed was about 20-30 knots from the South at that time. I was inside > the house at the time. Sometime from about 8:15am to 8:30am my wife and I > heard a noise that sounded like rain on the roof of the house for a short > period of time. At sometime between 8:30-8:45am, I went outside for the > first time that morning. The air at that time had a burnt odor. Also, > sometime during this timeframe 8:00am-9:00am I lost the satellite signal > from Dishnetwork for about 5-10 minutes. > > The largest piece of debris found near my home (about 2 miles away) was > about 12" in diameter and it was metallic as is most of the debris that has > been recovered. The dust cloud from the accident was trackable by our local > weather radar for most of the day. > > > Tim > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harald Edens" <edens@weather-photography.com> > To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 10:59 AM > Subject: RE: Normal Shuttle Reentry > > > > At 07:38 2003-02-03 -0800, you wrote: > > >On another subject.. I was very skeptical of the attorney interviewed o n > CNN > > >who had a piece of debris hit his but now can't find it. The piece was > big > > >enough to put a 1 sq ft hole completely through the roof and tear off > > >shingles another foot or two around the hole but seems to have > disappeared > > >into dust, he says he searched extensively but can't find a trace of > > >anything.... hmmm > > >Dale > > > > Yes that's suspicious... but might be true. I have heard of no-one > finding > > any tiles, actually. These things are so brittle that I think they get > > smashed to very little pieces at impact with the ground over 100 mph. The > > places where they do remain in one piece are probably over water and soft > > ground (woods?) where they can remain unnoticed longer. If such a tile > > strikes a house or a road there may not be much left of it. But yes, it > > would be strange that nothing was found at all, not even small pieces. > > Harald > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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