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Date: March 17, 2023 at 23:33:35
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: seems to be |
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a lot of reports of meteors along the northern west coast tonight...no scheduled meteor shower that i know of at this time...
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Date: March 18, 2023 at 09:33:51
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: seems to be/consensus: space junk |
URL: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/lights-in-the-sky-above-northern-california/103-b5497e3f-9d08-4bea-9bbf-806b7531f790 |
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What were those lights in the sky above Northern
California? Experts say space junk. (video @ link)
Viewers from all across the region sent us photos and
videos all asking ‘what is this?’ ABC10 looked into
it.SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Folks out celebrating Saint
Patrick's Day or enjoying the start to their weekend in
Northern California got a cosmic show Friday night when
streaks of light soared across the sky.
Viewers from all across the region sent us photos and
videos all asking ‘what is this?’ ABC10 looked into it.
Jonathan McDowell is an Astrophysicist at the Harvard–
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and says this
essentially was space junk from a 2009 launch of ICS-
EF.
“This was pieces of a package that was jettisoned from
a space station about 3 years ago,” said McDowell. “It
was moving at about 17,000 mph… What you're seeing is
it broken into pieces about 40 miles up.”
The package served to send data between the ISS Kibo
module and Mission Control Tsukuba via the Kodama data
relay satellite, according to Robert Lunsford from the
American Meteor Society.
This communications box has been on the Space Force and
astrophysicists radars for quite some time, but
McDowell says no warning was issued due to the guessing
nature of where it would come in.
Trajectory tracking expected it to come in above Chico.
The streaks were seen around 9:30 p.m. from the Bay
Area up to Shingle Springs, according to our viewers.
So will it hit the ground? Maybe, but not likely,
according to McDowell.
“It will probably melt entirely, but a few bits could
reach the ground in Yosemite,” he said.
Send us your photos and videos by using our free ABC10
app or emailing us as desk@abc10.com!
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Date: March 18, 2023 at 09:52:30
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: seems to be/consensus: space junk |
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Date: March 18, 2023 at 00:38:34
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: seems to be |
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I have come across the same news also.
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