A friend of mine has found a couple of tapes with entries from the old days when 28 degree missions were still common. At this point, with the early sheding of debris now well established by multiple observations, would it still be helpful to submit observations of previous normal entries as a baseline for comparison? And apologies to Jim and Dale, my first attempt to send this sent it to every recipient *other than* SeeSat-L. Doh! Richard Clark rclark@lpl.arizona.edu On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Jim Scotti wrote: > Dale, > My guess would be that no, thruster firings would not leave these kinds of > small glowing gas spots during reentry. Remember that this particular > phenomenon has never been reported before during reentry observations and > thruster firings appeared as small perturbations in the ionization trail > rather than persistent bright spots. This reentry was different and those > glowing spots moved laterally... > ... > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Dale Ireland wrote: > >> Hello >> I asked yesterday about the bright flashes seen in previous "in-cockpit" >> reentry videos. The answer that best matched what I saw is thruster firings. >> I am wondering if these firing can leave small glowing gas spots visible >> from the ground during reentry. >> ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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