... > >meteor burning up in the sky (about 45 degrees on the horizon). It was very > >bright with an electric blue /orange color. The trajectory was heading > >North, North-East. After few seconds the object split in 3 distinct parts > >just before disappearing over the mountains. Could it be an artificial ... I also checked the previous decayer, OV 1-10, some 17 hrs earlier, in case a dense part remained in orbit. However, it would be moving N->S, and still some 800 km East of Lausanne at the time. Since a decaying satellite moves at less than 8 km/s, and is usually seen at heights around 75 km, you would have seen for many times longer than ordinary meteors, unless the mountains in the NE were extremely steep and close. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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