Re: (meteorobs) very bright fireball 2001 Dec 22

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) very bright fireball 2001 Dec 22
• From: Tony Beresford <aberesford@iprimus.com.au>
• Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 15:24:19 +1030
• Cc: Guy McArthur <guym@guymcarthur.com>
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At 10:49 5/01/02, you wrote:

>I wonder if anyone else witnessed this event, or knows what it was. It 
>looked like videos I've seen of space junk re-entering.
Guy,
It wasnt Space junk. There were no re-entry's at that time (0800UT Dec 23).
Re-entrying objects travel much slower than meteors, and is moving
horizontally, so you see it for longer, say 30-60 seconds.
Tony Beresford


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