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- From: Mehrtens_T@msm.cdx.mot.com
- Subject: Re: Persied Shower
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.175325.8504@isunix.cdx.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:53:25 GMT
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- I was looking at the sky last evening, and I noticed that a bright star (like
- the North star) was moving! It was "travelling" from north to south, approx.
- 75 degrees across the horizon, at 10:25 p.m. EST in Massachusettes, at a speed
- faster than our intercontinental jumbo jets. It dimmed, and faded from view,
- before it reached the center of the sky and never reappeared. I wonder if this
- was the soviet spacestation? I remember, as a teenager, viewing our
- spacestation (which travelled at a slower rate as viewed from the ground.) and
- ours may have been brighter.
-
- Hmmmm. Just thinking...
- "insert disclaimers here"
- Tom Mehrtens <Mehrtens_T@msm.cdx.mot.com> Motorola Codex
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