On Tue, 29 Aug 1995, Edward S Light wrote: > On 1995 Aug 29 at about 01:30 UTC (Aug 28, 21:30 EDT), while watching Mir > pass in my northern sky, I noted an unknown (to me) object moving to the > right, essentially parallel to Mir's path, but much lower, and perhaps a > half- to one minute earlier, passing below Polaris at about 01:30.5 UTC by > which time it was fading (presumably as it was entering the earth's shadow, > which Mir itself did a little later. > > Does anyone have a clue as to what this object was? My northern sky was > rather hazy, but I don't think this was an airplane. Did a piece of Mir > undock? My position was: North 40.067 deg, West 074.222 deg, 111 feet elev. The next craft to arrive at Mir is the Soyuz-TM22/Euromir-95 mission, due for launch at approx 0900 UTC on 3 September. The Progress-M28 resupply vehicle *was* due to be undocked and deorbited around 2 September. regards, Neil.