Hello all, I am an amateur astronomer and had the opportunity to spend a couple hours observing last night (9/29-30) under dark skies from my site 15 miles north of Duluth, MN. I have seen many meteors in my time but last night offered something truly unusual. At 12:53 a.m. I spotted a slow-moving, northward traveling "meteor" moving from northern Cetus in the southeast clear across the eastern sky disappearing some 10 seconds later 4 degrees above the northeastern horizon. The object was yellow-orange, about mag. - 1.0 and left a continuous contrail as it leisurely traveled across the eastern sky. I even had time to train the finder on my telescope on it when it was very low in the north. Would I be right to assume this was probably a piece of a satellite burning up? Were there any re- entry predictions for yesterday evening? Thanks for your help and comments! Bob King ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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