[meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT

[Rob Matson]

Hi Steve,

> irridium flare? u got to be Fing kidding! It moved from the north
> star to out of site the same as every naked eye neo  posted on
> heavens above.

When you use the acronym "NEO", that means asteroid, not artificial
satellite. As others have pointed out, no way you saw ANY asteroid
naked eye, so you're obviously talking about a manmade satellite.
Given the brightness, and the lack of information about angular
velocity, Iridium flare is a perfectly reasonable guess. If you
want someone to ID what you saw, you just have to provide your
latitude & longitude. It is very easy to ID anything that reaches
negative magnitude.

--Rob

--- On Wed, 5/9/12, Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Pete Pete <rsvp321 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT
> To: clp at alumni.caltech.edu, "meteoritelist meteoritelist"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 4:02 PM
>
> My first thought was an iridium flare.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
>
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 09:37:37 -0600
> > From: clp at alumni.caltech.edu
> > To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEO LAST NIGHT
> >
> > There are no NEOs anywhere near that bright. The only
> orbiting object
> > that bright is the ISS. Most likely, this was a VERY
> near Earth object,
> > like an airplane or weather balloon.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > *******************************
> > Chris L Peterson
> > Cloudbait Observatory
> > http://www.cloudbait.com
> >
> > On 5/9/2012 9:15 AM, Steve Dunklee wrote:
> > > Saw an near earth object last night @4:45am
> central time. First saw it just below polaris in the
> northern sky with a brightness like Venus at its brightest.
> where it started was obscured by a roof. It continued in an
> easternly direction passing the bottom of Cassiopea and
> faded out just to its left in i think the bottom of ?Draco?
> > > Found no postings on heavens above for an astroid
> passing by so if im first this ones name is Lesa2012.
> > > Cheers
> > > Steve