At 20:29 22/03/01 , David Hall wrote: >Hi All, > I just saw Mir pass over Sydney for the last time. I was watching >through binoculars and when it became invisible to the naked eye it turned >a deep red. I've never seen a satellite do that before. Was that caused by >the fact Mir is so low? No David, it was just entering the Earth's shadow, and its a bright enough object to show the usual red sunset colour. Tony Beresford Adelaide, So. Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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