Stephan Szyman wrote: > I was looking at this article which i found on spacetoday.net. I checked > for iridium flares and have ruled them out for the times given by the > witnesses. > > any ideas? > > the article from "hawke's bay today:" > > http://www.hbtoday.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3651853&thesection=localnews&t hesubsection=&thesecondsubsection= excerpt: <<<< Space junk could have lit up sky 09.09.2005 The bright light seen in the sky over Hawke's Bay on Wednesday night may have been space junk. Susan Martin from Esk Valley was at Aropaoanui when she saw what looked like a distress flare between 6.30 and 6.45pm. A woman from her work told her she had heard on the radio that NASA had brought down some space junk over the Pacific Ocean. >>>> The time of the event was 2005 Sep 07 near 18:30 NZST = Sep 07, 06:30 UTC. Space Track does not list any natural decays that day. Progress M-53 (05021A / 28700) was de-orbited that day, but remained docked to ISS until 10:23 UTC, which rules it out. So a satellite decay is an unlikely explanation. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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