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Originally posted by DarkSide
Definitally a meteorite.
Originally posted by Crakeur
there was a meteor shower that night. that would point to the obvious, no?
Originally posted by Crakeur
-odds are-
-it is probably due-
-odds are-
Originally posted by masqua
Originally posted by DarkSide
Definitally a meteorite.
Hmmm... you sound very sure of that.
Care to expand on what you are saying?
Why could it not be a piece of our space junk which finally fell back to Earth?
Originally posted by DarkSide
It could be, by aren't they classed as "meteors" in any case?
www.space.com...
When these objects fall back into Earth's atmosphere, which they inevitably do, they behave just like any other meteor, lighting up the sky.
A 1999 study estimated there are some 4 million pounds of space junk in low-Earth orbit, just one part of a celestial sea of roughly 110,000 objects larger than 1 centimeter -- each big enough to damage a satellite or space-based telescope
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In the first six months of 1999, 57 of the tracked objects re-entered Earth's atmosphere, according to Major Michael Birmingham of the U.S. Space Command. Birmingham said that 91 objects fell into the atmosphere in all of 1998, and 69 in 1997.