[meteorite-list] Catch A Comet?
Richard Kowalski
damoclid at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 14 15:24:45 EDT 2009
Alexander,
there were a number of observations made, including photometry, that showed the object was too dense to be a man-made object. I am not sure if spectral analysis was made, but it was clear this was a natural object and not a spacecraft or booster.
An abstract from the American Journal of Physics about it can be found here:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AmJPh..76..720A
--
Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net> wrote:
> From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Catch A Comet?
> To: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>, sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:08 PM
> > You may remember a few years ago
> when my colleague, Eric Christensen
> > discovered 6R10DB9, which was Earth's first know
> "Second Moon". albeit a
> > temporary one.
>
> Dear Richard,
>
> how did this turn out in the end? Did you/they find out it
> might have a cross-sectional profile that, via the observed
> orbit evolution, gave an indication to a man-made object,
> even identifiable somehow as a rocket booster of some
> specific launch from the past, or was it nothing but a
> natural coincidence with a natural object finally...
>
> Just curious,
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
>
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