(meteorobs) Spotting of an asteroid

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Sun Mar 23 20:46:23 EDT 2008


A fireball is a lot more likely than decaying junk. Most slow meteors 
will show green (of course, decaying junk is the slowest).

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shy Halatzi" <shyhalatzi at gmail.com>
To: <sinisa at mysql.com>; "Global Meteor Observing Forum" 
<meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Spotting of an asteroid


> It could also be a piece of space junk or an old falling satellite,
> since you say it was so slow. What was the color? green raises the
> probability of space-junk.




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