[meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT

[chris handler]

Heavens Above lists no NEO's that are visible to the naked eye, except
Vesta, which occasionally becomes bright enough to be seen by a person
with good eyesight, from perfectly dark skies. As far as I understand,
there has never been a recorded NEO that has been easily visible to
the naked eye and had a procession across the sky which you could
visually perceive and there won't be until April 13th, 2029 when
Apophis makes it's closest pass. Even then, at a magnitude of 3.4, it
will be at the very limit of visibility from city skies.






On 5/10/12, Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Agreed that the brightness is consistent with a flare, but the rest of
> the report probably is not.
>
> Chris
>
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> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
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> On 5/9/2012 11:02 AM, Marco Langbroek wrote:
>
>> I agree: this cannot have been a NEO.
>>
>> General west to east movement and fading description fits a satellite.
>>
>> It can't have been the ISS by the way, given the time.
>>
>> But there are quite a number of other satellites than can flare to well
>> into the negative magnitudes.
>>
>> - Marco
>
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