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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jan 30, 2020 4:02:21 GMT -6
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Post by greybeard on Jan 30, 2020 9:33:07 GMT -6
That looks more like SpaceX's starlink satellite string than a meteor.
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Post by simangking on Jan 30, 2020 9:33:13 GMT -6
Looks a lot like a satellite reentry.
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Post by greybeard on Jan 30, 2020 9:36:59 GMT -6
The above is one of the earlier strings of 60 satellites SpaceX sent up.
Meteors are inside our atmosphere to be visible and don't travel that slow across the sky as far as I know.
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jan 30, 2020 12:20:49 GMT -6
That looks more like SpaceX's starlink satellite string than a meteor. Looks a lot like a satellite reentry. Ha, you guys are good... I wouldn't have guessed space-x involvement when I saw that. I was thinking SpaceForce might have knocked something out of orbit and offline. Edit: But I figured someone would call BS on the "meteor" link being old. |
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Post by greybeard on Jan 30, 2020 13:12:09 GMT -6
Well, I've been watching meteor showers for decades, here and out in the open sky parts of West Texas and a couple from aboard ship in the middle of the ocean and have never seen a single one that lasted anywhere near that long or moved that slowly. The one in the vid just looked nothing like any meteor I've ever seen and I had seen pics of the SpaceX string a month or 2 ago on the news as it was visible in the Houston area (I did not see it tho).
There aren't many places with darker skies than the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a moonless night. The stars in that setting are magnificent.
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Post by simangking on Jan 30, 2020 13:31:52 GMT -6
The way it separated doesn't look like a starlink chain separation. Probably some government spy satellite burning up in the atmosphere. They like to burn them up over the ocean so no remains can be found.
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Post by simangking on Jan 30, 2020 13:45:12 GMT -6
If it was a meteor of that size, would look more like this.
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Post by Nesikep on Jan 30, 2020 14:53:04 GMT -6
a few years back there was a huge meteor that landed about 150 miles away, it was behind the mountains but I saw the flash really clearly. My buddy was driving and saw it maybe 20 miles ahead of him, he said it was like daylight for 10 seconds or so
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jan 30, 2020 15:24:26 GMT -6
The way it separated doesn't look like a starlink chain separation. Probably some government spy satellite burning up in the atmosphere. They like to burn them up over the ocean so no remains can be found. I took your statement wrong, I thought you were agreeing with the video on pieces of the starlink re-entering. Like I said, my initial thought was someone's satellite or structure was taken out. But I sure don't know enough about the process to speak intelligently. I like seeing everyone's thoughts to ponder on. |
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Post by greybeard on Jan 30, 2020 21:40:26 GMT -6
Yeah, I sure did miss the date on the link..Oct and 2012. No SpaceX starlink back then.
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