To: SEVENCROSS
"white, to yellow, to orange" -- sounds suspiciously like something going through the black-body spectrum as it cools down, like a hot piece of iron in a blacksmith's fire. That would be consistent with some piece(s) of junk entering the atmosphere. If the words, "to red," were added, that would clinch it in my mind.
To: Gordian Blade
good point
20 posted on
12/01/2001 8:23:16 PM PST by
linemann
To: Gordian Blade
There was some red, it was so colorful the kids said it looked like fireworks, and it did look like pieces burned out or trailed off, and others would flare up and change colors.
To: Gordian Blade
The direction of motion also seems to imply a deorbiting satellite or space junk (which is mostly left-over stages from launch vehicles or old satellites just left in orbit to be deorbited naturally by atmospheric drag). Good call on the color change by the way.
51 posted on
12/01/2001 9:57:10 PM PST by
Turk2
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