Good work on the the coordinates.

RE: >> bit of a red herring

Hum,
not really as this discovery goes some way towards solving why the rate of supernova explosions appears to be so low.
ie There should be on average three supernovas every century given that we live in a large spiral galaxy - but we don't see that number of supernova remnants. A mystery that has bugged astronomers for over 50 years.
It now seems that the remnants were just overlooked, or unseen due to their wavelengths.

Hum,
indeed.

The word on the street says says it's the identification of Type Ia Supernova progenitors.

A preliminary launch date has now been set for 2 January, 2008.

The launch has been rescheduled for Saturday 20:43 GMT, (3:43 pm EST), 8th December.

Hum,
yeah, perhaps its a re-entering delta 2 rocket...


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i just ran a sim and can rule out a delta 2 rocket body that was due to crash, (the timing and location don't match).

@ugordan
Since the SL-6 is quite large ill watch the data and post an predicted landing site nearer the time

A Molniya-M SL-6 (Stage 3) Rocket Body that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome for the Molniya 1-78 mission on the 10th August 1990, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th August @ 17:51 UTC ± 25 hours.

Predicted Decay Location 31° 48` N, 10° 48` E
Inclination 61.4°
Revolution Number 12427

TLE Data

CODE

SL-6 R/B(2)
1 20745U 90071D   07228.50588499  .25937346  17159-4  44544-3 0    94
2 20745 061.4239 095.8964 1582773 270.4675 070.0695 12.89249173123841
1 20745U 90071D   07228.03788120  .27199724  16181-4  43563-3 0    79
2 20745 061.4310 097.1048 1689604 270.2695 078.2154 12.65444992123783
1 20745U 90071D   07228.03788120  .27199724  16181-4  43563-3 0    80
2 20745 061.4310 097.1048 1689604 270.2695 078.2154 12.65444992123783
1 20745U 90071D   07227.55660042  .23183311  15033-4  45381-3 0    62
2 20745 061.4345 098.2933 1815130 270.0762 069.3532 12.36074633123728
1 20745U 90071D   07227.31281239  .23224376  14612-4  37328-3 0    53
2 20745 061.4300 098.8757 1870867 269.9180 069.5906 12.24665665123699

Hum,
no fooling you guys....yes the meteor is a sunlit vapour trail...(i had been fooled by similar images like that before; but in this case in the blown up jpeg images the plane can be clearly be seen)

Anyway...

Re-entry update:
16th August @ 09:23 GMT ± 1 minute
Predicted Decay Location 59° S, 329° E
Inclination 98.3°
Revolution Number 1093

Hum,
something like this meteor seen over Bogota Colombia on July 26th, 2007, at 18:10 local time...

YouTube Video

But it should be said that currently the satellite data is very unconstrained - so it could land anywhere along that orbit...

A Delta II Stage 2 Rocket Body that was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force Base for the COSMO 1 mission on the 8th June 2007, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 16th August @ 06:48 UTC ± 4.4 hours.

Predicted Decay Location 11° 04` N, 1° 34` E
Inclination 98.4°
Revolution Number 1093

TLE Data

Astronomers are scheduled to announce new findings about a star unlike any seen before at a media teleconference Wednesday, Aug. 15, at 17:00 GMT (1 p.m. EDT). The findings are from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US.

The briefing participants are:
- Christopher Martin, principal investigator of the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California.
- Mark Seibert, astronomer, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Pasadena, California.
- Michael Shara, curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor of astronomy at Columbia University, both in New York

Read more (live tomorrow)

A BBC Horizon programme puts forward a very persuading case that the Kebir crater was not the origin of the desert glass, rather it was formed by an airburst of a much smaller 100 metre sized asteroid.

The airburst generated temperatures similar to the sun, and blew a huge plume of gas out into space. The glass wasn't from a crater or it's ejecta, if a crater is formed at all , but from the fireball that blasted huge areas of the surface.

Read more


@Bob Shaw
The program also touched upon the formation of Australites and Indochinites - no crater needed - just a loose rubble pile of an asteroid that air blasted south east Asia. The early humans and species like Gigantopithecus blackii would have been incinerated.

Hum,
Northern Norway was hit with an meteorite impact comparable to the atomic bomb on Wednesday, 7th June, 2006.
For several seconds, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark saw a ball of fire crossing the sky.
A few minutes later an impact was heard and geophysics and seismology stations in Karasjok registered a powerful sound and seismic disturbances at 02:13.25 a.m.
The meteorite hit a mountainside in Reisadalen in North Troms, and was probably the largest known to have struck Norway.

Latitude 69.498379° Longitude 21.428999°
(As the actual impact site hasn't been found the attached image is centred on Reisadalen.)

Hum,
i too seem to recall that it was once speculated that the Bay was formed by an impact.
However it may be that they hadn't found the Chesapeake bay impact structure.

(35 million years ago, a meteorite smashed a 83 kilometre hole in Earth's surface.)

But i agree that it is just speculation as to what the gravity anomaly is. If it is an impact crater then it could date from 545 million years ago, (an upper limit of 100 million years is dictated by a tectonic fault line that cuts through the feature). Personally i think it`s an old caldera.

BTW Another intriguing `crater` worth looking at in Canada (with say google earth) is at
Position: Latitude 76.628177° Longitude -109.037557°

Hum,
looked real to me...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/3155928.stm

Hum,
just for the record - (i can`t find this information anywhere on the net!)...The location of Darwin Crater is at

Latitude = -42.30483 Longitude = 145.65883

Small IMAGE

Hum,
the orbit of Sedna surly points to the possibility that our sun is rather unique in being a solitary star...

Hum,
i ve just remembered another possibility for the Australites.

“An asteroid between 5 - 11 km across had broken up in the atmosphere and five large pieces had hit the Earth, creating multiple craters over an scatter ellipse area in Antarctica.
Scatter ellipses such as this accompany all such multiple impact sites, except that the Antarctic ellipse is the largest known on Earth. Of the five new impact craters, three of them are on the continental land mass and two more are in the Weddell Sea. The largest of these craters is about 322km by 322km.
The Antarctic scatter ellipse is of enormous size by Earth standards, measuring some 2,092 kilometres by 3,862 kilometres. Melted rocky debris, blasted from such meteoroid craters upon impact and explosion, and known as tektites, may have been carried thousands of kilometres from the impact site. Such tektites, called australites, are found in large strewn fields in Australia some 5600 kilometres from the largest proposed impact sites in the Ross Sea region.

The impacts occurred roughly 780,000 years ago during an ice age. When the impacts hit, they would have melted through the ice and through the crust below.”

Read more (PDF)

Web link:

Another weblink:

A recent weblink:

Hum,
Yeah a bit of a mystery there...

Australites (and Indochinites which are indistinguishable from each other) have been dated to about 710,000 years using fission track and potassium-argon (K-Ar) dating methods; However the stratigraphic positions indicates an age of 7000 to 20,000 years BP.
From their chemical composition, both belong to the same impact event...!

The evidence seems to show a least two episodes of australite falls - one relatively recent (24,000 and 16,000 years ago) and at 710,000years. (It could be influenced by sorting by ie Early man)
Australites are also unusual in that some show that they were remelted; this may show different trajectories - sending some material into orbit...

Darwin glass from South West Tasmania has a combined K-Ar and fission track age of 730,000 +/- 40,000 years. It seems that Darwin crater was the source of both.
I would also add that it is possible that the impact crater may be part of two or more events that occurred together. Another associated impact crater could have been formed in the Indonesian region.
A larger impact crater that still has to be found...
Darwin Crater has a diameter of 1 km


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(This is a possible location - can someone confirm?)
-42.249599° 145.555629°

(i`ve posted another location (42°18.39'S, 145°39.41'E) at googlehacks though)

http://www.grisda.org/origins/04076.htm

Hum,
Well i suppose that the relatively recent date may shock a few people, and that it have been controversial a few years ago...
But, Dallas Abbott of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) and her colleagues analysed melt water from nine samples taken from the West Antarctic Siple Dome ice core that date between 1440 and 1448 A.D. and found high values of potassium and calcium as well as impact glass, microcrystalline magnetite, minerals and five microfossils corresponding to the 1443 A.D. level.
Several pieces of evidence point to Mahuika as the source ...


http://www.earth2class.org/k12/w8_s2004/content.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/artic...8/8meteor_2.htm
http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/ccc/cc120403.html

LOL,
i posted that garbage...

Take it from me that the evidence is there....(yes really)


Hum,
i found this in a few clicks

random link

>>millions of gallons

70 millions of gallons exploded.
One explosion measured 2.5 on the Richter scale - its the biggest European fire since WW2.

Hum,
1991 VG was the rocket body...

Anyway don`t forget 2003 YN107



and 2002 AA29