On 06/23/2018 11:32 PM, Jill McDonald via Seesat-l wrote: > It had a GREEN (like green smoke) elliptical (bullet shape) but flattened flare that was parallel to the satellite at ± N Very cool. I'm jealous that you saw this and I didn't. Could this have been a meteor? They usually move much faster than a satellite but if they are coming mostly straight towards you they appear to be moving slower than they are. And it's easy to lose track of how fast something was moving when one gets all excited that they are seeing something awesome (in other words 10 minutes later you may remember it moving slower than it did - our memory of emotional events tends to make it seem like it happened much more slowly than it did. "time slowed down"). If it was a satellite then I'm guessing the green color was a reflection of sunlight directly angled to you off one or more solar panels that had a green tint to them. You would have to be in the right spot at the right time as people 100 miles on either side of you probably missed it. The elliptical/bullet shape was probably an illusion or artifact of your eye. The smokiness may have been another artifact of your eye or maybe some thin clouds that lit up with the green light. My explanation seems far fetched to me so I'm leaning towards it being a meteor. If so it would have been visible maybe within 500 miles and you can check to see if anyone registered it here: https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_events (I wish more people would register these) - George _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Jun 24 2018 - 09:32:10 UTC
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