B Gimle @ComHem schreef: > Though angular speed is an issue, I doubt it is that easy. > A satellite can be glowing at 80 km altitude, while moving at nearly 8 > km/s. > Overhead, this is just above 5 d/s. There is a video of the fireball here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_eJLcGPWTs Showing it low in the sky, and moving much too fast (and of too short duration) for this to be decaying satellite material. This was a meteoric fireball, not debris of the Iridium-Kosmos collision. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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