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Scary stuff!
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:shock: Wow, that must be some sized bit of junk. Or the Triffids arrival in OZ. :ugeek:
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Wow. That was frightening! Thanks very much for posting this, Clinton!

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Occasionally, stuff like that is visible just about anywhere. I remember a few years back around here a booster fell back, and the TV channels went wild with 'meteor shower' news. Of course, a piece of space junk breaking up into little flaming streaks is NOT a meteor shower! But the public ate it up.

I have noticed that space junk enters slowly and glows a dull orange, real space rocks are faster and burn blue-white in color and are only UFOs if you can film them way out of focus with image stabilization off.

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