Rob, the fireball in Guatemala last week was space junk, video showing large fuel tank debris was posted in local Peten news. do you have any idea what craft re-entered for that debris?
Michael Farmer Sent from my iPad On May 9, 2012, at 10:06 PM, "Rob Matson" <mojave_meteori...@cox.net> wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> irridium flare? u got to be Fing kidding! It moved from the north >> star to out of site the same as every naked eye neo posted on >> heavens above. > > When you use the acronym "NEO", that means asteroid, not artificial > satellite. As others have pointed out, no way you saw ANY asteroid > naked eye, so you're obviously talking about a manmade satellite. > Given the brightness, and the lack of information about angular > velocity, Iridium flare is a perfectly reasonable guess. If you > want someone to ID what you saw, you just have to provide your > latitude & longitude. It is very easy to ID anything that reaches > negative magnitude. > > --Rob > > --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Pete Pete <rsvp...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Pete Pete <rsvp...@hotmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT >> To: c...@alumni.caltech.edu, "meteoritelist meteoritelist" > <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> >> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4:02 PM >> >> My first thought was an iridium flare. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Pete >> >> >> >>> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:37:37 -0600 >>> From: c...@alumni.caltech.edu >>> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT >>> >>> There are no NEOs anywhere near that bright. The only >> orbiting object >>> that bright is the ISS. Most likely, this was a VERY >> near Earth object, >>> like an airplane or weather balloon. >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> ******************************* >>> Chris L Peterson >>> Cloudbait Observatory >>> http://www.cloudbait.com >>> >>> On 5/9/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote: >>>> Saw an near earth object last night @4:45am >> central time. First saw it just below polaris in the >> northern sky with a brightness like Venus at its brightest. >> where it started was obscured by a roof. It continued in an >> easternly direction passing the bottom of Cassiopea and >> faded out just to its left in i think the bottom of ?Draco? >>>> Found no postings on heavens above for an astroid >> passing by so if im first this ones name is Lesa2012. >>>> Cheers >>>> Steve > > ______________________________________________ > > 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
