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Started by Chris Wittum, 06/27/2004 05:16AM
Posted 06/27/2004 05:16AM Opening Post
I have a question for meteor hunters. Tonight at ca. 10:50 PM EDT at the Kalamazoo Nature Center (42.3628N 85.5828W) I was attending a public observing session and we noticed multiple objects that were either entering earth's atmosphere or skipping on it. The main object and one or two smaller objects exhibited a vapor trail. Colors from pieces from the main object were observed, i.e. green, orange and yellow. At one point up to five separate objects were observed with the main object. The object was observed starting around the area in Cassiopiea. It tracked east of Deneb, southeast of Altair and lost behind trees around the Teapot. If anyone in this forum has an idea of what this is I would appreciate an answer.

Chris
Posted 06/30/2004 03:32PM | Edited 07/01/2004 01:44AM #1
If you look at spaceweather.com, at their archive for 6-27, they have a photo of it. A Russian rocket motor reentered and burned up at about 10:50 pm EDT. I saw it from my yard in Vermont, but I don't wear my glasses while observing, and you better believe it was frustrating to see something happening up there, but not be able to see it clearly. Of course, by the time I dug out my glasses and put them on, it had faded out!
Charlie
Oh, P.S., edited to add: I was at 44.128171N, 72.298304W, and although I couldn't see background stars without my glasses, it was near Bootes, maybe a little W, maybe up about 45+ degrees, so I'm quite a bit East of you, and I saw it going down a good deal West of where you did. Didn't track it across the sky, though, just looked up and there it was.