I have dug out notes I made on a similar observation 2 weeks ago.
At around 18:10 UT on 11/2/2000 I was driving home when me and my
Brother in Law observed 2 bright objects (approx -2) moving parallel
and fairly fast moving SW to N. Approx 1 full moon width apart. Due
to clouds (and I was driving!) contact with object was not long.
Could have been an aircraft but V. unlikely - it was above high clouds
and would therefore have to have been one huge fast airplane! I have
seen similar objects before.
I am fairly new to this and I confess I can offer no explanation.
Matt
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Subject: Unidentified subject!
Author: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com at MHS
Date: 27/02/2000 22:04
Hello I'm Felix. I am a student of Biology in Halle (Germany) (N 51.4731°a
nd E 11.9669°). I need your help.
I've never watched satellites as a hobby, but recently I saw something andh
ave no idea whom to ask what this might be. It was definitely not a normals
atellite as one sees them a dozen times a night.
It was on the 27th of February 2000, 29 minutes past midnight, in Halle. The
sky was clear. We were five people (all have seen it) and I discovered 2
bright dots travelling very fast from East towards the western horizon
(right above us). The bright dots seemed larger than "normal" satellites.T
he distance between them was approximately 3 or 4 times their diameter.
They flew on a parallel course. And the amazing thing about them was theirs
peed. They were moving so fast that we saw them just for 6 or 7 seconds.T
hen they disappeared in the dust of the horizon. We have a lot of air
traffic here, but I'm sure it was not a plane (there were no flashing lights
and it was moving too fast). And it had no tail or anything else, so it wasn
ot a falling star.
I have checked this site:
http://www.heavens-above.com/allsats.asp?lat=51.500&lng=12.000&alt=0&loc=Hal
le&TZ=CET&Date=36582.2291666667&Mag=4.5 and found no visible satellite
passing by at that early time in the morning.
So I had no other idea than to ask you. Was it a satellite we've seen and if
yes - what type of satellite travels so fast? It would be very kind of yout
o help us with this question.
Thanks a lot,
felix berthelmann
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