Heavens Above lists no NEO's that are visible to the naked eye, except Vesta, which occasionally becomes bright enough to be seen by a person with good eyesight, from perfectly dark skies. As far as I understand, there has never been a recorded NEO that has been easily visible to the naked eye and had a procession across the sky which you could visually perceive and there won't be until April 13th, 2029 when Apophis makes it's closest pass. Even then, at a magnitude of 3.4, it will be at the very limit of visibility from city skies.
On 5/10/12, Chris Peterson <c...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > Agreed that the brightness is consistent with a flare, but the rest of > the report probably is not. > > Chris > > ******************************* > Chris L Peterson > Cloudbait Observatory > http://www.cloudbait.com > > On 5/9/2012 11:02 AM, Marco Langbroek wrote: > >> I agree: this cannot have been a NEO. >> >> General west to east movement and fading description fits a satellite. >> >> It can't have been the ISS by the way, given the time. >> >> But there are quite a number of other satellites than can flare to well >> into the negative magnitudes. >> >> - Marco > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list