Marco Langbroek wrote: > This has been discussed on the Meteorobs list the past days: > the photographer thinks it is a meteor, but I and several > others do not think so. Any possibillity that this is a > satellite trail with fuel dump, as suggested by one of the > Meteorobs readers (Larry Wood)? Improbable. Propellant dumps are most likely to occur within hours of a launch. On the date of the image in question, 2005 Feb 26 UTC, MTSAT 1R (05006A) was launched on an H-2A rocket into a geosynchronous transfer orbit, but it does not correlate with said image. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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