Op 14-1-2012 16:18, George Roberts schreef: > But if it was as slow moving as the description sounds then it seems it had > been orbiting earth just before entry (whether it was a rock or space junk). Not neccesarily. Slow meteors start at 11.8 km/s and are slow enough that they can be confused with a fast low-latitude satellite (note that the report says it was somewhat *faster* than the ISS). Information which would be more to the point here, would be the *duration* of the event. If it was a few seconds at best, then it was a meteor. If it was in the order of a minute or more, than it was man-made. There was a spade of low-velocity meteoric fireballs photographed and video-ed the past nights from the Netherlands and the UK. Maybe this was one of them. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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