Hello, my name is Ulrike and I joined your list because something I watched two days ago has made me extremely curious. It was Saturday afternoon and I was lying in my garden flat on my back and looking idly into the cloudless sky. A tiny light-grey spot aroused my curiosity,it was clearly far, far away and didn't seem to move at all,standing a little south of the zenith. After watching for two or three minutes I went in and fetched my binocular. When I had found the spot again I could see that it was an object that was tumbling , and about 2/3 of it was bright margenta-red. Now I could also see that it was moving north increasingly fast I could follow it for about one minute, then it vanished from view. No smoke or any kind of trace like sometimes seen with meteorites. Could it be a satelite or rather space-junk coming down? Time: Sat, 30 August 5:00 Pm Summertime Place: Greven, Germany, Lat 52.100 Long. 7.617 46m ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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