"Something" in the sky over MS/LA last evening

[1srelluc]

I have zero experience or expertise, but that really looks like a man-made object breakup on entry.....Rocket stage maybe?



Japan a few days back.

 

[sparky]

looks like it's on fire.......~S~

 

[1srelluc]

The plot thickens:

 

[Care4all]

Meteor shower, breaking up in the atmosphere.... ?? I've witnessed one.

 

[Mister Iggy]

 

[White 6]

I have zero experience or expertise, but that really looks like a man-made object breakup on entry.....Rocket stage maybe?



Japan a few days back.

Probably part of the Ursid meteor shower that was supposed to occur.

 

[toobfreak]

I have zero experience or expertise, but that really looks like a man-made object breakup on entry.....Rocket stage maybe?

I want to say that it was probably an earth-grazing bolide, something on the order of what hit Chelyabinsk a decade ago, but the slow speed and multiple pieces and sustained burn up also suggests possibly a piece of decaying space garbage reentering the atmosphere and burning up. I've seen several bolides, but they are usually brighter and don't last so long.

 

[1srelluc]

Probably part of the Ursid meteor shower that was supposed to occur.
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I don't know, it looks a awful like when the space shuttle broke-up over TX.

 

[White 6]

I don't know, it looks a awful like when the space shuttle broke-up over TX.

Agreed, and cannot be ruled out. Just pointing out, an expected recurring shower, coinciding on the 21st. Wish I had seen it. I'm only 50 miles north of MS, but it was cold as heck last night (high 20s at that time of night), so I didn't spend much time outside, smoking.

 

[1srelluc]

Agreed, and cannot be ruled out. Just pointing out, an expected recurring shower, coinciding on the 21st. Wish I had seen it. I'm only 50 miles north of MS, but it was cold as heck last night (high 20s at that time of night), so I didn't spend much time outside, smoking.

See post #3.

 

[toobfreak]

Agreed, and cannot be ruled out. Just pointing out, an expected recurring shower, coinciding on the 21st.

I can assure you that wasn't part of the Ursid shower. If it were, it almost certainly would not have been seen except in the early morning hours coming from a northerly direction radiating out from the direction of the Big Dipper.

the more i look at the video, the more i feel that was something like a communication satellite or other space garbage falling out of orbit.

 

[White 6]

I can assure you that wasn't part of the Ursid shower. If it were, it almost certainly would not have been seen except in the early morning hours coming from a northerly direction radiating out from the direction of the Big Dipper.

the more i look at the video, the more i feel that was something like a communication satellite or other space garbage falling out of orbit.

Could be. We have lots of space junk in decaying orbits, put there by multiple countries.

 

[toobfreak]

Could be. We have lots of space junk in decaying orbits, put there by multiple countries.

Trust me, I know all the meteor showers. The Ursids like other showers are just sprinkles of old comets passed by long ago who we annually pass through the remnant trail of. They are weak sprinkles of tiny grain meteorites. They are typically best seen before dawn and the Ursids radiate out from near the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) which is in the NE area of the sky at that time.

What was in the video was either a superbolide much like Chelyabinsk, a random space rock, or it was decaying space junk. Had it been American, there likely would have been a notice issued to be aware of it and a conscious effort to set it crashing in over the ocean.

 

[toobfreak]

I don't know, it looks a awful like when the space shuttle broke-up over TX.

Exactly. Even a grazing meteor like Chelyabinsk comes in at enough angle to "burn up" rather quickly (brighten dramatically towards the end as it hits the lower atmosphere); what was in those videos was much more indicative of something that had been in a decaying low earth orbit slowly falling into the upper atmosphere at a near parallel trajectory to the Earth surface gradually breaking up due to slowly increasing friction and heating.

The objects in the videos were traveling much slower than is typical for an incoming space rock.

 

[Thunk]

It was the democrat they chucked out of the space station. They couldn't take his TDS any longer so out he went.

I guess he burnt up in the atmosphere

 

[Rambunctious]

If its a Chinese satellite they wanted it to re enter the atmosphere when and where it would be seen... I think ever since the spy balloon they are getting off on freaking out the American people...

 

[BULLDOG]

 

[Oddball]

I want to say that it was probably an earth-grazing bolide, something on the order of what hit Chelyabinsk a decade ago, but the slow speed and multiple pieces and sustained burn up also suggests possibly a piece of decaying space garbage reentering the atmosphere and burning up. I've seen several bolides, but they are usually brighter and don't last so long.

Exactly what I thought....Very possibly a satellite burning up on reentry.

Saw what looks like a rotating beacon in there too....Could be a chase aircraft in there among the debris.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Perhaps it was an escape pod prematurely deployed too close to earth...

 

[luiza]

I have zero experience or expertise, but that really looks like a man-made object breakup on entry.....Rocket stage maybe?

Lovely .
But what has all that got to do with the price of Parsnips ?