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Real UFO - Sort of
Anyone venture a guess as to what this was?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050208.html No record on heavens-above.com. |
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wrote in message oups.com... Anyone venture a guess as to what this was? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050208.html No record on heavens-above.com. Did you follow the discussion on the bulletin board suggested in the photo caption? http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?t=291 is the link. The participants there have it pretty well down to a rockets fuel dump: "This would appear to be a fuel dump. The AMC-16 satellite was launched at 12:07 UT. Spacecraft separation was scheduled to occur 1:49 later (13:56 UT). I don't have the times but what followed next was the Contamination and Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CCAM). The first photo is at 14:19 UT. Twenty-three minutes seems like a reasonable time to wait before the fuel dump..." There are a bunch of UFO and conspiracy theory cranks who have inflated the thread, but the simple explanation seems to satisfy most. |
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Sounds good to me. It will be fun to see this turn up as evidence for
alien spacecraft and government conspiracy. I got the link off of drudgereport.com, and the discussion had just begun. But, by definition, it was/is a UFO. JohnShap wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Anyone venture a guess as to what this was? http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050208.html No record on heavens-above.com. Did you follow the discussion on the bulletin board suggested in the photo caption? http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?t=291 is the link. The participants there have it pretty well down to a rockets fuel dump: "This would appear to be a fuel dump. The AMC-16 satellite was launched at 12:07 UT. Spacecraft separation was scheduled to occur 1:49 later (13:56 UT). I don't have the times but what followed next was the Contamination and Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CCAM). The first photo is at 14:19 UT. Twenty-three minutes seems like a reasonable time to wait before the fuel dump..." There are a bunch of UFO and conspiracy theory cranks who have inflated the thread, but the simple explanation seems to satisfy most. |
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