[meteorite-list] bright flash

From: Tracy Latimer <tracyl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:07:02 2004
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210171426220.14114-100000_at_netra.lib.state.hi.us>

Another candidate for bright flashes of unknown origin is iridium
flares. They can be as bright or brighter than Venus, and are freaky if
you don't know what you're looking at. I've been fooled by them a few
times.

Tracy Latimer

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, azaware wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen this before? You know when you're looking for falling
> stars. Sometime off to the side of where your looking you see something that
> looked like maybe a star getting really bright, but by the time you look
> there, its gone. I've seen this many times and finely I was looking right at
> it. It was really cool. It looked like a star that just kept getting bigger
> and brighter then it was gone. Then second after there was a little one.
> This all happen with in seconds. For a while I thought for sure it was some
> planets exploding. But a guess it was just a falling star coming straight
> in. If you see this now you know.
>
> Kim Az
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Received on Thu 17 Oct 2002 08:33:16 PM PDT