Astronomers: the American stage of the Falcon 9 rocket exploded over the Annunciation

18 Jan 0.50 Moscow time on Blagoveschensk (far East, Amur region) there was an occurrence in the Earth's atmosphere of the large space object. The flight of the body was fixed in 0.45 MSK and over Khabarovsk. At low speed, and how to destroy the object, the experts came to the conclusion that it most likely was an artificial Earth satellite or rocket vehicle. The record flight was posted on YouTube.

The initiative group of astronomers, which included scientific Director of the astronomical Observatory of FPA "Ka-Dar" Stanislav Short, the employee of a private space company Dauria Vitaly Yegorov (known in the blogosphere under the name Green cat) and the observer from Petrozavodsk Andrey Mezentsev, and found that probably the reason was the second stage of the American carrier rocket Falcon 9 is a private Corporation Space X.

"The identification of the object was made using the base данныхspace-track.org that contains information about many satellites. In it were found the objects that would fall in the next day. Best of all came the second stage of Falcon 9. Next, we checked the trajectory of flight in the sky of Blagoveshchensk, and it is very well-suited to the trajectory of the Falcon 9," — told "Газете.Ru" Stanislav Short.

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