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Re: Blue Salt Crystals = Green Fireball????
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- Subject: Re: Blue Salt Crystals = Green Fireball????
- From: "ruby tuesday" <ruby_tuesday@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 21:32:26 PDT
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Steve wrote:
>I was just talking with Jack Murphy at the Denver Museum of Natural
History,
>and he was saying that there has been an unusually high amount of
fireballs
>seen in the past year or so...
I think at least some of these 'fireballs' are really 'Iridium flares'
which are sunlight glints off an Iridium communication satellite.
This web page : http://www2.gsoc.dlr.de/ is amazing and easily the best
source of information about these flares.
This is a dynamic Web page, you input your lat./long. and time zone and
it generates predictions of visible satellite passes.
A -7 mag. Iridium flare is likely to be confused with a fireball even by
someone who knows a satellite from a hole in the ground.
R.
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