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["Kevin Bays" <bayskevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jack,

Great star party at Sentinel, and the facilities were marvelous.  Is this
space shuttle pass you are referring to at 6:00 on Tuesday the reentry of
the shuttle, or merely an orbital pass?

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Dickson <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Flare+HST+SS


>
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:26:55 -0700 , jack.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > If I'm reading my Heavens-Above correctly, at 6 am Tues morning Mar 5
we'll
> > see a -8 flare followed by the HST/Shuttle in the same place. Flare
> > Iridium26 is at 05:59:17 centered in the East Valley at 43^ at 176^(S),
and
> > the HST/Shuttle at 41^(S). starting at 06:00:33 from the WSW.
> >
> > See http://www.heavens-above,com for your location.
>
> I watched portions of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th spacewalks to service the HST
> live on NASA TV via the web:
>
>     http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/rrg2.pl?encoder/nasatv.rm
>
> I watched at 3:04 this morning when the let go of HST and slowly moved
> away.  At about 6:10, three manuevering burns later, I was outside and
> watch the HST and the Space Shuttle move from the WSW to SSE.  They were
> already separated by a good 15 degrees.
>
> The space shuttle is scheduled for a landing at KSC on Tuesday morning
> around 2 or 3 AM MST.  Anyone know if the reentry pass is visible from
> Arizona?  I think it may be, but low in the SE for Phoenix.
>
> -Paul
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