Dear Jonathan, before jumping in my bed the answers on your questions: tlj18@juno.com wrote: > Congratulations on your observation! Two questions: > What was the approximate magnitude of the object? It was roughly the same colour and brightness like Antares (so let's say about mag 1 - object slightly (but not very much) brighter than the plasma trail). > And, > For how many seconds was the object visible? I can only estimate this, because I was so faszinated that I really lost my "feeling for time": But let's say I observed it for 8-15 seconds. (Unfortunately I missed the beginning. As I first noticed the object it had already a plasma trail.) > > I don't think this was a bolide "fireball" (4 reasons): > > 1. Object was travelling at orbital speed (7-9 km/s) > Yes, most meteors usually just zip across the sky and rarely last longer than a second. I've never seen such a slow-moving plasma-trail-object before. So I immediately thought "This could be a reentering satellite". Wish you a good night, clear and dark skies Franz Strambach 23.06.2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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