Hi Steve, > irridium flare? u got to be Fing kidding! It moved from the north > star to out of site the same as every naked eye neo posted on > heavens above.
When you use the acronym "NEO", that means asteroid, not artificial satellite. As others have pointed out, no way you saw ANY asteroid naked eye, so you're obviously talking about a manmade satellite. Given the brightness, and the lack of information about angular velocity, Iridium flare is a perfectly reasonable guess. If you want someone to ID what you saw, you just have to provide your latitude & longitude. It is very easy to ID anything that reaches negative magnitude. --Rob --- On Wed, 5/9/12, Pete Pete <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Pete Pete <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT > To: [email protected], "meteoritelist meteoritelist" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4:02 PM > > My first thought was an iridium flare. > > Cheers, > > Pete > > > > > Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:37:37 -0600 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT > > > > There are no NEOs anywhere near that bright. The only > orbiting object > > that bright is the ISS. Most likely, this was a VERY > near Earth object, > > like an airplane or weather balloon. > > > > Chris > > > > ******************************* > > Chris L Peterson > > Cloudbait Observatory > > http://www.cloudbait.com > > > > On 5/9/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote: > > > Saw an near earth object last night @4:45am > central time. First saw it just below polaris in the > northern sky with a brightness like Venus at its brightest. > where it started was obscured by a roof. It continued in an > easternly direction passing the bottom of Cassiopea and > faded out just to its left in i think the bottom of ?Draco? > > > Found no postings on heavens above for an astroid > passing by so if im first this ones name is Lesa2012. > > > Cheers > > > Steve ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
