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[Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like an Iridium Flare

Andrew


Neville Cole wrote:
> Did anyone here witness the bright so-called fireball visible over Arizona 
> on Sunday night? (I didn't)
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> >From the article in the Arizona Republic today, the eyewitnesses talk about 
> what sounds like something that's considerably slower moving than any meteor 
> I've ever seen or heard of.
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> Jeff Hartman of Ahwatukee reported it was moving about the width of a human 
> hand per second across the sky.
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> I've witnessed both a fireball and re-entering space junk.  While it's true 
> that the fireball I witnessed crossed the sky more slowly than your 
> typically fast meteor, it still was pretty fast as it crossed the entire sky 
> in 2 or 3 seconds.  The speed of the space junk I witnessed re-entering was 
> more like Jeff Hartman described, but probably even slower.
>
> Neville
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