Got this today from Mark Dakins -- don't know if there's anything new here, but thought I'd pass it along just in case... Rich --- Mark Dakins <mdakins@earthlink.net> wrote:

Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 17:34:41 -0800 From: Mark Dakins <mdakins@earthlink.net> To: retenney@yahoo.com Subject: [Fwd: [OSP] January 15, 2006 - Stardust SRC Reentry Observing Campaign]

Rich

It seems likely to me that you and the slas folk have already heard of this, but just in case, pass this along to slas and uvaa and anbody else you can think of. It's a little too far away for me to try to get to this time of year, but I wish I could.

Mark

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Dear OSP 2005 participants, I thought the most efficient way to get this announcments out to amateur astronomers and imagers in the northwest was to send it once to this OSP list, and ask you to pass it on to the appropriate astronomy clubs. Many of you are in the Rose City Astronomers, but you also have all those wonderful connections with clubs or club members in OR, WA, ID, NV, UT. I sent this out myself to the northern California clubs. I compiled this information on behalf of the Stardust Sample Return Capsule (SRC) Observing Campaign PI, Dr. Peter Jenniskens.

Begin announcement

Amateur observers and the general public may be able to to view or hear the Stardust reentry on Jan 15, 2006 at about 1:56:39 PST (Pacific Standard Time).

If you live in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Northern Nevada, Southern Idaho or Western Utah you should be able to see some part of this man made meteor. The closer you live to the trajectory, which runs from Crescent City California, and then through Winnemucca and Elko Nevada, and finally to Western Utah, the higher in the sky it will be.

An airborne and ground observing campaign to test thermal protection systems in the fastest reentries since Apollo and probe the delivery of organics for life's origin by measuring the physical conditions during reentry is underway. Here is the mission website: http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/.

The Stardust SRC (Sample Return Capsule) Principal Investigator Dr. Peter Jenniskens has compiled an informative entry viewing page. On this page you'll find out where the best viewing spots are and also see finder charts for selected cities. There is also a registration page for interested observers, plus video and digital camera instructions page explaining what is required for imagers. Here is that page: http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/viewingforum.html

If you are interested in participating, the team is looking for video, still and telescopic observation reports. If you are interested there is an observation form, and a list of registered observers will soon be added here:

http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/registrationobserver.html.

The view from each location will be different, with the brightness falling off when the object passes by and then is seen from behind. Researchers are interested in learning how the light falls off when the capsule passes by. There is interest too in viewing the capsule pass in front of the near-full Moon through telescopes and, perhaps, see the hot air wake expand and move in upper atmosphere winds.

If you have any questions, please send them to the SRC Observing Campaign mailbox which you will find at the top of this page: http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/

Jane, on behalf of Dr. Peter Jenniskens

-- Jane Houston Jones Monrovia, CA 34.2048N 118.1732W, 637.0 feet http://www.whiteoaks.com Old Town Astronomers: http://www.otastro.org

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