--- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Pictures I've received so far are here (more coming):
http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/slas/patrickw/PATRICKW04.HTML For long-term future reference, it might be useful to label pictures like - http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/slas/patrickw/PATRICKW967.JPG - with the notation that the spacecraft is moving from the left to the right of the frame during reentry. Future viewers could misinterpret the path as a meteor. The apparent path of a meteor descends and get brighter - as opposed to a spacecraft reentry. In spacecraft reentry the satellite is initially brighter, then dims, but appears to move higher in altitude relative to the the viewer's position. Just a visual impression - - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com