At 12:15 30/08/01 , Greg Kail wrote: >Hi List >Had a great night in spite of the Moon-shine. Lots of >bright passes. But at approx 21:39 EST. saw something >that looked as fast as a meteor but had no trail and >flashed Brilliantly with a white blue color vanishing >approximately overhead. Was this something decaying or >a strange meteor.... It flashed brighter that anything >I have seen in the night sky. > >===== >73's A "strange" meteor Greg. The flash was just a terminal burst. A decaying satellite cannot be as fast as the average meteor. Decaying satellites all have same low velocity as they are essentially in 100-120Km circular orbits ( which means speed is 8.1 kilometers/second or thereabouts. Tony Beresford 34.96S, 138.6E ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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