[meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 11:10:25 -0600
Message-ID: <4FAAA501.8090102_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

Agreed that the brightness is consistent with a flare, but the rest of
the report probably is not.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 5/9/2012 11:02 AM, Marco Langbroek wrote:

> I agree: this cannot have been a NEO.
>
> General west to east movement and fading description fits a satellite.
>
> It can't have been the ISS by the way, given the time.
>
> But there are quite a number of other satellites than can flare to well
> into the negative magnitudes.
>
> - Marco
Received on Wed 09 May 2012 01:10:25 PM PDT