(meteorobs) Alaskan Fireball - April 23, 2005 - 2AM PDT

[Marco Langbroek]

Kim Youmans wrote:
>>>> The main reason Kempen's sighting sounds more like junk than a 
>>>> meteor is that it exhibited color, Brown said.
> 
> 
>>>> "Meteors don't have any blue or green or any colors," he said. "Most 
>>>> of the meteors are just rocks."
> 
> 
> Neal Brown, director of the space grant
> program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
> Geophysical Institute

We all know meteors can be blue and green or any color - enough said.

Also, there is no decay candidate for April 23.

So this likely was a meteor, and highly unlikely space junk.

Its the same old story over and over again -sigh- .....

- Marco

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Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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