Re: Fast Mover and NOSS

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 19:54:40 EDT

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    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?
    
    
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