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Re: Starlink & Satellites

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Russian space junk coming home/
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Atmospheric drag has been pulling the dead probe down slowly but surely over the decades, and Kosmos 482's time is now almost up. According to Langbroek, the most recent forecasts have the spacecraft returning to Earth around 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) on Saturday (May 10). The uncertainty is quite high, however — plus or minus 20.6 hours.
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I think that is 5:30PM on the 10th? (SA time)
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I hope that it doesn't hit anything important or anywhere populated. I suppose we'll all know soon enough if it does.
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I still think the thing we saw wasn't it. It was stationary for to long and too bright.
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Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But if the orbit is somewhere around the equator then we could have just been rotating towards it on a similar axis. If it wasn't Kosmos 482 ? then what was it?
It wasn't a bird, plane or Superman. :D
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Russian space junk path.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=12 ... 0408845987
A bit of an update.
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So...... this is an enlarged photo of it.

Lens was zoomed out to '250', taken hold the camera with the hand.
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and a different one with a leaf as a silhouette
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mmm, nice & round?
No idea really.
Joking .... any street lights? hehe
I think the Chinese, the indians & the Russians have space stations up there.
NZ are even sending some up. Not sure if any sheep on board!
Sth Australia have their own satellite up there. Not sure who launched it for them.
https://sasic.sa.gov.au/precinctsprojec ... s-mission/
OK, SpaceX did it for them.
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No street lights anywhere near Taggery, Bruce. Or farm shed lights either. And the big round thing that is usually in the sky had already set that night. It was barely a half moon that night anyway.
Tis a mystery. The Russian satellite sounds the most logical explanation.
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I doubt it was the Russian one as I think I read that it's circling the earth ever 90 mins or so. If that's correct it wouldn't be stationary unless you were in Lucas's rocket!!
Anyone got updated info on crash site yet?
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A couple Bruce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dseLu6lMSgQ

https://www.eusst.eu/newsroom/eu-sst-mo ... osmos-482/
Might land on George? :roll: That would be worse than falling off the ladder.

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