[meteorite-list] Catch A Comet?

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <692712.23335.qm_at_web33904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Alexander,

there were a number of observations made, including photometry, that showed the object was too dense to be a man-made object. I am not sure if spectral analysis was made, but it was clear this was a natural object and not a spacecraft or booster.

An abstract from the American Journal of Physics about it can be found here:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AmJPh..76..720A

--
Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Mon, 9/14/09, Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net> wrote:
> From: Alexander Seidel <gsac at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Catch A Comet?
> To: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>, sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:08 PM
> > You may remember a few years ago
> when my colleague, Eric Christensen
> > discovered 6R10DB9, which was Earth's first know
> "Second Moon". albeit a
> > temporary one.
> 
> Dear Richard,
> 
> how did this turn out in the end? Did you/they find out it
> might have a cross-sectional profile that, via the observed
> orbit evolution, gave an indication to a man-made object,
> even identifiable somehow as a rocket booster of some
> specific launch from the past, or was it nothing but a
> natural coincidence with a natural object finally...
> 
> Just curious,
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
> 
      

Received on Mon 14 Sep 2009 03:24:45 PM PDT