ccarrington wrote: >>Perhaps showing my ignorance, but could it not have been a leonid or other meteorite? Having said that it does look very much like an rotating orbital object.<< No, this is not a meteorite, which would leave an image that was faint at the beginning and end of the image, while being solid and bright in the middle. With Mike McCants calculating that this object is farther than the orbit of the moon if it is a satellite in a circular orbit (40 day orbit), its 60 degree inclination to the equator, and the bright spots at the beginning and end of the trail, I am pretty sure that this is an artifact of the imaging process and not an actual image of something in space. Tim Rogers ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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