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Sighting Confirmed
Hi Jaqui and Peter,
thanks for your comments, much appreciated.
At least I now know that the satelite really was on a south north trajectory during the final stages of re-entry.
Only the estimated time for NZ fly-by as mentioned in the linked article is off by about 17h.
But in the article it is mentioned that the satelite has been tracked with the aid of a US military satelite. Given that the time difference between the Pentagon (Washington DC) and Auckland NZ is exactly 17h, it would be possible that the author of the article made a mistake in colporting the time as mentioned in US press releases without conversion.
I think that is fairly plausible and hence close this case (with a smiling face) as: SIGHTING CONFIRMED.
Many thanks guys
Cheers
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