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Date: 14 Sep 2007 19:10:34
From: Sam Wormley
Subject: Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007 -- remarkable fireball
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Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007
http://spaceweather.com
On Sept. 13th a remarkable fireball split the skies over
New Mexico. Witnesses say it "turned night into day"
and reminded them of a full Moon hurtling across the
sky. In fact, it was brighter than a full Moon. At
least two all-sky cameras captured the event while one
amateur astronomer recorded radio echoes from the
fireball's ionized trail. What was it? Probably a
piece of reentering space junk, but this is not yet
certain. Visit http://spaceweather.com for updates plus
sights and sounds of the Great New Mexico Fireball.
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Date: 15 Sep 2007 16:22:51
From: kokomo
Subject: Re: Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007 -- remarkable fireball
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nuttin but space junk posted by you...
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> On Sept. 13th a remarkable fireball split the skies over
> New Mexico. Witnesses say it "turned night into day"
> and reminded them of a full Moon hurtling across the
> sky. In fact, it was brighter than a full Moon. At
> least two all-sky cameras captured the event while one
> amateur astronomer recorded radio echoes from the
> fireball's ionized trail. What was it? Probably a
> piece of reentering space junk, but this is not yet
> certain. Visit http://spaceweather.com for updates plus
> sights and sounds of the Great New Mexico Fireball.
>
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Date: 14 Sep 2007 16:56:16
From:
Subject: Re: Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007 -- remarkable fireball
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On Sep 14, 12:10 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com > wrote:
> Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007http://spaceweather.com
>
> On Sept. 13th a remarkable fireball split the skies over
> New Mexico. Witnesses say it "turned night into day"
> and reminded them of a full Moon hurtling across the
> sky. In fact, it was brighter than a full Moon. At
> least two all-sky cameras captured the event while one
> amateur astronomer recorded radio echoes from the
> fireball's ionized trail. What was it? Probably a
> piece of reentering space junk, but this is not yet
> certain. Visithttp://spaceweather.comfor updates plus
> sights and sounds of the Great New Mexico Fireball.
Hi
Typically space junk travels at normal orbital speeds while
outside objects tend to travel much faster. Has anyone
looked at the speed of the object. I'd suspect that it
should be easy to calculate from the camera shot.
Dwight
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Date: 14 Sep 2007 19:23:33
From: Chris L Peterson
Subject: Re: Space Weather News for Sept. 14, 2007 -- remarkable fireball
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On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:56:16 -0700, dkelvey@hotmail.com wrote:
> Typically space junk travels at normal orbital speeds while
>outside objects tend to travel much faster. Has anyone
>looked at the speed of the object. I'd suspect that it
>should be easy to calculate from the camera shot.
It doesn't appear to be space junk. Too fast, and also probably coming
in at too steep an angle. Nothing in the catalog scheduled for decay,
either.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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