You saw a pass of a APT ( 26377 ), Ed cannon was watching the same sat pass by last night. It was moving so fast, as you saw it near the perigee of it's orbit. Kevin --- Jeff Umbarger <jumbarger2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hey All, > Saw a very interesting object last night at > -2:01:15 UT moving parallel to the outer two "handle" > stars of the Teapot (Sigma and Tau Sagittarius), about > 3 degrees away, towards my SSE horizon. It was moving > at what looked to be twice as fast as a satellite, but > it did not have any appearance of a slow moving > meteor. It moved fast with steady magnitude of ~3.5 > and then disappeared (eclipsed?) just as it got beyond > Tau Sagittarius. My location information is below. If > this thing was a satellite, it must be ready to > re-enter soon based on the fact that is was moving so > fast and eclipsed *before* nautical twilight my time. > Can anyone tell me what this was? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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