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Originally Posted by OzEclipse
...the sonic boom, we mutually agreed it was 2-3 minutes after the visible burn up. 3 minutes equates to 90km
Joe
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Are you sure on that math Joe?
I get roughly 200,000ft / 61km altitude. Using a mean speed of sound of 661.06 knots / 343 m/s (taking into account temperature RISE above the stratopause in the mesosphere, and temperature drop in the stratosphere).
That's a vertical distance, ignoring slant range, which simply complicates things WAY too much as it introduced many more variables.