A cover version of Death's "Spiritual Healing" was also tracked at this time and is available on the band's Myspace.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command was able to track the rocket at this time.

Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books.

A cold front also was tracking over Britain at this time.

Although former chief executive of the Māori Language Commission, Dr. Patu Hohepa, a noted Māori academic, was quoted as saying "We cannot track it in the traditional Maori world... at this present time it is a mystery."