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CHINESE ROCKET RE-ENTRY
SpaceWeather News ^
| 2-24-2015
| staff
Posted on 02/24/2015 10:53:57 AM PST by LucyT
Last night, Feb. 23-24, sky watchers in the western half of North America witnessed a spectacular cluster of fireballs and meteors. We now know it was the re-entry and breakup of a Chinese rocket body, specifically stage 3 of the CZ-4B rocket that launched the Yaogan Weixing 26 satellite in Dec. 2014. - Donny Mott photographed the glowing debris from Spirit Lake, Idaho.
According to satellite tracking expert Ted Molczan, "there are confirmed sightings from Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, British Columbia, Alberta."
(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: china; chinarocket; chineserocket; explosion; fireballs; rocket; rocketreentry
.More info w Photos at link.
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:53:57 AM PST
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
I assume that the space junk landed on US soil.
To: Old Sarge; EnigmaticAnomaly; Califreak; kalee; TWhiteBear; freeangel; Godzilla; ...
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:56:42 AM PST
by
LucyT
To: LucyT
To: CMB_polarization
So THAT’S what hit my garage last night...
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:57:06 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: LucyT
Is this the booming flash we read about a few days ago?
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:57:12 AM PST
by
9thLife
("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
To: LucyT
I thought this was a rare FR porno thread...
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posted on
02/24/2015 10:57:18 AM PST
by
freedumb2003
(AGW: Settled Science? If so, there would only be one model and it would agree with measurements)
To: LucyT; melancholy
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posted on
02/24/2015 11:00:48 AM PST
by
azishot
(God made man but Samuel Colt made them equal.)
To: LucyT
Senator McCain flying again?
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posted on
02/24/2015 11:02:11 AM PST
by
McGruff
(We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama 2011)
To: Disambiguator
Haven’t heard that in decades!
To: CMB_polarization
I assume that the space junk landed on US soil. Canada, assuming anything survived to land.
To: DoodleDawg
Only specks of gold could survive that fireball.
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posted on
02/24/2015 11:32:32 AM PST
by
entropy12
(Real function of economists is to make astrologers look respectable.)
To: LucyT
If China would ban Re-Entry it would have a big impact on their population control.
To: CMB_polarization
I assume that the space junk landed on US soil. reportedly northern most canada
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posted on
02/24/2015 1:59:02 PM PST
by
Godzilla
(3/7/77)
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