At 03:52 PM 4/09/2011, you wrote: >At 03:19 PM 4/09/2011, Roger wrote: > >I saw a pretty spectacular meteor last night (Sep2nd). About 05:31 > >UTC(Sep 3), saw a meteor roughly from north to south. If it had kept > >going, it would have entered the big dipper between Dubhe and Merak > >pretty much straight on. It was wider than normal, I couldn't tell if > >it was multiple parts breaking up, or just a large fireball from one > >piece. If there was light from the moon, I would have expected to > >see a residual smoke trail. > >Anybody know if any satellites decayed about that time? > >location: On checking things out its really to Early for the satellite in question and since its in a orbit with an inclination less than your latitude, the direction is quite wrong. Please remember re-entering satellites are moving horizontally at about 7.6 km/second while the average velocity of meteors is more like 25km/s and of coarse can be up to 70km/sec. Tony Beresford _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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