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Space Junk May Have Been Meteor Stuff.com March 21, 2003 Space junk or big meteor? Whatever it was, the big, bright light that hurtled northward over an area from Nelson to Palmerston North in the early morning light of Wednesday was according to witnesses "really honking". Fifteen sightings were reported to the Carter Observatory and astronomer Brian Carter said the object was probably man-made space junk. But Noel Munford, of the Manawatu Astronomical Society, said the international astronomical website that reliably tracks bigger pieces of space debris had given no warning of a significant object coming in. Witnesses had reported the object was travelling at great speed across the sky and did not break up, as space debris usually did. That suggested the object was a "bolide" - a meteor far bigger that the usual pea- or pebble-sized "shooting star". And it might have disappeared because it came in at a low angle and skimmed off the upper atmosphere back into space. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
