Meteor sighting caught on video proves to be re-entry from Soyuz
| Published on December 25, 2011 2:05 pm PT – By TWS Staff Reporter – Edited by Staff Editor |
(TheWeatherSpace.com) – Another failed launch from Russia as the Soyuz-2.1B rocket crashed into Siberia. The failure did not go silent, many witnessed the rocket and satellite burning up over Germany.
The sighting was seen on Saturday, prompting some to call it Santa Claus, being it was Christmas Eve. However, the sighting over Southwestern Germany was just a re-entry.
“The ball observed … above Belgium, The Netherlands, France and Germany was the return of the last stage of the Soyuz rocket launcher,” Belgium’s Royal Observatory said yesterday.
A video posted on the internet (below) shows how spectacular some of these re-entries are. To catch one you have to be in the right place and at the right time.
The video is below …
from: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-122511-soyuz-rocket-failure-russia-germany.html