[meteorite-list] Fwd: 5:15 UT slow, bright Mediterranean bolide

[mexicodoug at aim.com]

Hi List, Rob, and everyone who held their breath on this one,

Please read the other half of the story - from none other than our 
favorite satellite and comet bagger, Rob Matson !!!

Best wishes and better luck next time:(
Doug

PS God help us if Rob ever defects ... thanks again and I trust it was 
good work!
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Hi Doug,

Please feel free to forward this to the Meteorite list for me...

I just did a quick check on this, suspecting it might be a satellite 
re-entry.  ... it was travelling east-to-west!", let me add that it was 
actually ~because~ it was travelling east to west AND passing over 
Israel that a lightbulb went off in my head.  Israeli satellites are 
always launched in retrograde orbits, and I thought it would be an 
amusing case of karma if this turned out to be one of their own.

Well, in short, it was:

Shavit R/B, USSPACECOM #31602, launched some time in 2007.

I just plotted its trajectory as seen from Jerusalem, and bingo.

--Rob