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Old November 19th 06, 10:07 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
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Default Leonid outburst??


Feles wrote:
I'm in south Louisiana USA and watched last night from 11:45 am to
12:45 am, when then the Leonid shower was supposed to "peak" according
to accounts in the media. Alas, I saw 1 meteor during that time!
However, I did see something else that was rather bizarre, which I
assume were three pieces of "space junk" orbiting in tandem (side by
side). That's the only thing I can imagine it could be.


I saw this as well from Balmedie just north of Aberdeen in Scotland. It
was three points of light in a triangular formation passing to the
north of us in a west to east direction, and all travelling in the same
direction as the long axis of the triangle. Very peculiar. The pictures
of the NOSS satellite from a Google search do look similar.

We saw 15 meteors all together from 05.00 to 06.00, some sporadics.