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Re: (meteorobs) Odd Meteor
What I saw the similar phenomena with my eye was finally identified with some
man-made strong light from ground and reflected by a layer of cloud. It
won't be explained if the weather is extremely clear.
However, I did have 'observed' such an unexplainable thing with professional
telescope, and the CCD image could be found at
http://vega.bac.pkudot edu.cn/~zj/scap/special/misc/0615i030.html
Jin
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> "From: Susan Kind
> To: fidac-news@imodot net
> Subject: Odd Meteor
> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 5:24PM
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> Could you upossibly answer a question for us. I've come across your web
> site looking for information of star activity. We live in San Jose,
> California. Last night, July 19, 1998 at appoximately 10:15 PST, we were=
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> experiencing a power outage and had gone outisde to gaze at the stars
> hoping to spot a shooting star. Someone yelled, "there's one!". And as
> we all stared to the spot he was pointing we saw a star moving through
> the night. It was the same small size as all many of the other stars,
> not too bright. The only oddity is it was moving upwards, it made an
> exaggerated zip to the right, went straight up, made a zip to the left
> and faded out of view. Could you please tell me if this was a meteor?
> And is this "normal" activity for a meteor?
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> Thank you very much for your help.
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> Susan
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> For what it's worth:
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> On a few occaisions, during astronomical observing sessions in New Mexico=
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> I have witnessed lights (+3 magnitude or so) (lasting up to 10 minutes )
> that moved in the sky, stopped, remained stationary, zigged up, stopped,=
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> zigged down, zigged up and various directions, and eventually darted out =
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> sight. Once I saw two lights "zigging" in the same area. Two times I hav=
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> witnessed this light phenomena with other people.
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> One time while observing the Delta Aquarids and Capricornids, I observed=
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> light (+2 magnitude) that darted into my field of view like a meteor and
> stopped abruptly, then moved around a little, as I was able to direct my
> observing partner to see it and told her to keep watching it while I grop=
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> around for the binoculars. It proceeded to move to the south and
> disappeared into the light glow of Albuquerque. =
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> Definitely not satellites. Definitely not meteors. =
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> These experiences remain in my unexplained file. =
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> Tom Ashcraft
> Santa Fe, New Mexico
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