I estimate that a decaying satellite would have taken more than twenty seconds to traverse the reported path, so the reported duration of 6 s to 9 s suggests it was a meteor. USSTRATCOM lists two objects that decayed on Sep 20 UTC, neither of which could have been above the observer's horizon at the reported time. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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