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To: Jack Hydrazine

Thanks for answering my post. I just noticed that DFW(where we live) is right under one of the ground tracks. We were right under Columbia when it broke apart and heard sonic booms as it re-entered. My husband and I were having coffee and a few minutes after we heard the booms, it broke on the news that it had blown up.

I did find this nifty little tracker just now:

http://www.n2yo.com/

It’s near Cuba right now.


72 posted on 10/22/2011 1:10:39 PM PDT by penelopesire (TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)
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To: penelopesire


Updated with newer data point derived from German radar. Looks like perigee is reaching down to 103 miles in altitude.

According to USSTRATCOM re-entry is going to be south of Chongking, China which is coming up pretty quick at 7:04PM PDT. I believe it is quite populated in that area.
http://www.spaceflight101.com/rosat-impact-prediction.html

Twitter users are reporting from various places they aren't getting any visuals on it so it is possible it is already down.

ROSAT Twitter feed

Google site on ROSAT
75 posted on 10/22/2011 6:54:06 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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