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Can satellites leave contrails?
Was enjoying the celestial view last night around 0345 EDT near Boston
when a satellite went over. Heavens-above.com gives several candidates for the time: Iridium 4 Rocket, ERBS, Cosmos 1455, Lacrosse 4 and AQUA. Of these, the Lacrosse seems to be best fit for trajectory. At one point, the satellite seemed to produce a short contrail for a second or two. I assumed that this was eye fatigue. But could it actually have been a visible trail from steering jets or some such? Thanks- Theo |
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Can satellites leave contrails?
Theo wrote in message ... Was enjoying the celestial view last night around 0345 EDT near Boston when a satellite went over. Heavens-above.com gives several candidates for the time: Iridium 4 Rocket, ERBS, Cosmos 1455, Lacrosse 4 and AQUA. Of these, the Lacrosse seems to be best fit for trajectory. At one point, the satellite seemed to produce a short contrail for a second or two. I assumed that this was eye fatigue. But could it actually have been a visible trail from steering jets or some such? Thanks- sounds possible to me, but I think it's John Winston who is the usenet contrails expert. he's got a couple groups he hangs out at maybe you can find him and ask him. on a different note http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6027...ce=most_viewed on 10/31/04 I was in Mobile training the moon was bizarrely orange on that date, because of an eclipse. There was no mistaking it But it wasn't huge the way this moon was that we saw on 6/1/07 this moon seemed fuzzy and some of it looked purple to me the Mobile one was crisp small and looked really pretty much ablaze more of a red orange than a yellow orange that day was a very dangerous ozone day, thus extra hazy, and, consequently, that might account for the appearance and colors. It's interesting to me that red ozone day isn't the worst day the worst is purple ozone day, which means just don't go out i hope we never get there but considering how bad the ozone was that day and we're not even into official summer yet. I expect more weird looking moons and "the Goldbug variations" becomes of value here. I just loved this book when I read it about 15 years ago Powers other stuff is quite good too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Powers i'm reminded of it because that orange purple moon might be the harmonic scale nocturne that might be a hemisemidemiquaver of the end of the rainbow . gamut the entire scale of musical notes wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn The limited range of colors provided by a specific input device, output device, or pigment set. http://www.globalimaginginc.com/reso...glossary.shtml mk5000 "When did your heart go missin'? I treat you like a princess But your life is just one big mess When did you heart go missin'? "--rooney |
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