@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND I just saw on the news here in San Diego that something very similar was seen last night streaking across the skies over here. It must be the same thing. Probably a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere.
@tech4172 turns out it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to install a GPS satellite from 2010! If the inertia and velocity of an object are strong enough, its trajectory will not fade as quickly... It's kind of like an outfielder in professional baseball that is able to throw the ball all the way to home plate. Gravity is working against him, but the velocity allows the ball to travel at a greater distance.
My experience with Perseid meteors (that I've seen) is that they are dim, very short in duration, and fast. This was streaking across the sky for at least one minute, bright, and moving a lot slower than a meteor. I'm thinking of a satellite whose orbit had decayed. Thanks for the comment!
Officials from McDonald Observatory believe it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to deploy a GPS satellite from 2010. So yes, it was space junk, but it was an unusual sight in the skies over El Paso!
That’s crazy. God bless you guys.
Thank you! I don't think it impacted anything.
I saw that when I was putting gas on the chevron by the i-10 after work. I wanted to tell someone so bad. No one was around.
It was definitely a bizarre thing to experience!
I saw it also on northeast, I was trying to get my husband to get up but it disappeared pretty fast. It was actually a pretty kool site!
It definitely was a surprise. I'm out by an airport by the west side, and I initially thought it was a jet!
Impressive capture!
It was an unexpected sight to see, to say the least!
@@ABANDONED_UNDERGROUND I just saw on the news here in San Diego that something very similar was seen last night streaking across the skies over here. It must be the same thing. Probably a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere.
@AbandonedMines11 it did come from the west!
Wouldn't it be falling straight down if it was a satellite due to earth's gravity I could've sworn things get pulled down to the center of 🌎
@tech4172 turns out it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to install a GPS satellite from 2010! If the inertia and velocity of an object are strong enough, its trajectory will not fade as quickly... It's kind of like an outfielder in professional baseball that is able to throw the ball all the way to home plate. Gravity is working against him, but the velocity allows the ball to travel at a greater distance.
I actually took pictures on one of them it seems to have something blue at the end ..seemed like fire
Awesome! I think that blue was some sort of metal burning up in the atmosphere.
AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT!
Haha! Looks like it!
must be a perseid meteor
My experience with Perseid meteors (that I've seen) is that they are dim, very short in duration, and fast. This was streaking across the sky for at least one minute, bright, and moving a lot slower than a meteor. I'm thinking of a satellite whose orbit had decayed. Thanks for the comment!
That was Joe Biden's career after his debate with Trump...
Say hello, month ago, it's right now and...I don't think so.
Thank Elon Musk for his starlink Falcon 9 rocket explosion from Boca Chica!!!!
Officials from McDonald Observatory believe it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to deploy a GPS satellite from 2010.
It’s just space junk!
Give it a rest people.
🤣😂
Officials from McDonald Observatory believe it was a spent rocket body from a Japanese mission to deploy a GPS satellite from 2010. So yes, it was space junk, but it was an unusual sight in the skies over El Paso!
old knackered satellite....
time to come on home....
Haha!