We've got radio spectrum images of the reentry. The Soyuz-U reentered at 80-100km in north Czech Republic.
some radio images (horizontal axis is frequency vertical is time increasing from bottom to up): http://www.astrozor.cz/graphics/upload/reports/110-02.14.13-21_26_29.png
more images at http://astrozor.cz/
15/2/13 01:44
Reports are pouring in of a very long duration, bright fireball near 22:15 CET (21:15 GMT) seen from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Reports indicate 30-40 seconds visibility, and an "explosion" halfway, and some reports indicate sonic booms.
This fireball was with a high degree of certainty the re-entry of a Russian Soyuz 3rd stage, #39083 (2013-007B), the 3rd stage from the Soyuz that launched the Progress cargoship Progress-M 18M towards the ISS on February 11th.
USSTRATCOM issued a TIP message indicating decay at 21:15 +/- 1 m UTC near 49N, 13 E.
Below is a quick map (made using Orbitron) of the trajectory and approximate position of the re-entry. click map to enlarge
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Time, general description and reentry data all fit quite well.
posted by SatTrackCam Leiden at 23:56 on 13-Feb-2013
"Fireball over NW Europe of the evening of 13 February 2013: Re-entry of a Soyuz r/b"
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We've got radio spectrum images of the reentry. The Soyuz-U reentered at 80-100km in north Czech Republic.
some radio images (horizontal axis is frequency vertical is time increasing from bottom to up):
http://www.astrozor.cz/graphics/upload/reports/110-02.14.13-21_26_29.png
more images at http://astrozor.cz/
15/2/13 01:44