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Starshine 3 Re-entry Bulletin - January 22, 2003 (15:25UT) 

Starshine 3 burned up in the the earth's upper atmosphere sometime 
between 0504 and 0534 UTC on January 21, 2003. It had made 7434
revolutions around the earth between the date of its launch from 
Kodiak, Alaska, on September 29, 2001, and its fiery end on January
21, 2003. The exact location of its flameout is still uncertain, but 
we know that its final half orbit carried it in a northeasterly
direction over California, Nevada and Idaho in the U.S., then across 
Alberta and Saskatchewan in western Canada, then in an easterly
direction across Hudson's Bay, Baffin Island and the southern tip of 
Greenland, then in a southeasterly direction along the southern coast
of Iceland, down along the eastern coast of Scotland and England, 
across the border of France and Germany, right along the spine of
Italy, across the Mediterranean Sea west of Crete and into North 
Africa near the border between Libya and Egypt. Click here

http://azinet.com/starshine/starshine_reentry.html

to view the final Starshine 3 re-entry assessments from the U.S. Air
Force, the U.S. Navy, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the
Aerospace Corporation and Mr. Harro Zimmer of Berlin, Germany.

Since most of that path was in darkness, and a lot of it is
well-populated, we have high hopes that someone saw the satellite
blazing across the sky. If you sighted the re-entry fireball, please
send an email to the Starshine project director at gilmoore{at}aol.com.
In your message, please state your location when you saw it, as
precisely as possible, and give us a narrative description of the
appearance and description of the fireball. If you also obtained one
or more images of it, please include that information in your message, 
together with your name, email address and telephone number.  You will 
be contacted immediately and given information on where to send your 
image or images for evaluation by our panel of astrophotographers.

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