[amsat-bb] Re: Possible Mystery Spacecraft?

[Joe]

wouldn't that be 0.5 deg a minute?

That would be far too fast.
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On 6/11/2013 4:35 PM, Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE wrote:
> Could have been a GPS satellite.  They run about 1200 miles up and are about
> mag 10 or so.  They'd move about that fast across the sky.
>
> Kevin Muenzler, WB5RUE
> Eagle Creek Observatory
> http://www.eaglecreekobservatory.org
> I believe that all this hype of global warming is going to turn out to be
> nothing more than mother nature having a hot flash.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Joe
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:18 PM
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] Possible Mystery Spacecraft?
>
> Howdy All,
>
> I have no ideas as to where to possibly look for an answer to this.
>
> But of course we have all seen satellites, crosing the night sky. and seen
> them in binoculars. and even ever more rarely while using a telescope
> viewing something in the sky happen to have one of these things go zipping
> past.
>
> But a buddy of mine was viewing Saturn the other night, and he spied
> something moving. very small and faint. It was almost like a moon of Saturn
> itself, but of course these do not move so fast you can see them move.
>
> This was moving in the same plane and directions of the moons. at a
> estimated speed of about 0.02 degrees a minute.
>
> It was passing right through the field with Saturn.
>
>
> Saturn was located at.
>
> celestial location
> 14H,  17m, 50s
> -11 deg 00 min,,20 sec
>
> az  196 deg 16 min
> el 34 deg 04min
>
> Viewing location near Dodgeville, WI.
> +42.96103
> W 90.12580
>
> anyone have a way to try to learn what this interloper may have been?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
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