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Old October 29th 11, 01:31 AM posted to sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe
Merv
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Default Same satelite twice???

You say, "the same object" Why?
The likelihood is that all you saw was another satellite travelling
in the first satellite's path. This is often the case.

Minge


On 17/10/2011 1:11 PM, swc wrote:
Hey guys/girls I am new to this site so first of I would like to say the
image verification to register may be the most ridiculous/hardest thing
I have witnessed in my life, it only took me 15 tries to get it right
(rather annoying). Anyways I was sitting in my hot tub tonight staring
up at the stars when I noticed a fairly fast paced bright object moving
south it went really bright and then dimmed out and I could no longer
follow it. About 15 minutes later the same object appeared in the exact
same spot only dimmer than the first time and steadily got dimmer till
it vanished. Can someone explain what is happening? If this is the same
object I seen 15minutes earlier why does it progressively become dimmer
as it goes away, and why was it dimmer the 2nd time I seen it even
though it was in the exact same spot? Hopefully this is not to confusing
I am know space major / science genius, its rather interesting to me
though.