[AZ-Observing] Re: Meteor or was it Something Else?
- From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:01:23 -0700
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)
>
> >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.
>
> Jeff Hartman of Ahwatukee reported it was moving about the width of a human
> hand per second across the sky.
>
> 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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