08 October 2010

what was that?

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What the heck was that?

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12 comments:

  1. Bluebear210/8/10, 7:27 AM

    I would say a multi-stage rocket. The trail looks just like those left after the rocket launches from Vandenbergh.

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  2. wimpy10/8/10, 10:40 AM

    That's sorta what it looks like, only going the wrong way. That was the first thing I thought. It was incoming. There isn't that lovely break between stages.

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  3. Bluebear210/8/10, 4:23 PM

    I see a stage separation at 0:17 in the first segment and at 2:15 in the second segment with final burnout at 3:17

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  4. Bluebear210/8/10, 4:24 PM

    Plus I seriously doubt true extraterrestrial space ships would be using oxidizing propellants.

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  5. wimpy10/8/10, 4:38 PM

    Well I don't think it was space aliens. I just don't think it was supposed to be there. At the very end you see the burnout propelling a small ball of something. And it was acting quite too elegant for any missiles we've seen. And why was it all lit up like that? Why was it so bright at night? We could expect to see flame from a night launch but bright white smoke or vapors or whatever?

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  6. Bluebear210/8/10, 5:06 PM

    Yes indeed - a rocket!

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  7. Bluebear210/8/10, 5:09 PM

    It's just after sunset, or before sunrise - the clouds created from the rocket are still in sunlight as they are probably anywhere from 50 - 100 miles above the earth. 90 miles at least at the point where the rocket stops burning - orbital altitude. Same reason we can see satellites and the space station fly over at night time.

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  8. Bluebear210/8/10, 5:11 PM

    The small bit of something was the spent rocket and/or satellite.

    When it passed over the airport it was many miles high, way above the range of commercial aircraft.

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  9. Bluebear210/8/10, 5:13 PM

    The smoke trails from Vandenberg have on occasion been seen from here in Sacramento if the rocket was launched in the right direction.

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  10. Bluebear210/8/10, 5:14 PM

    Going home now - make somebody feed me!

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  11. wimpy10/8/10, 5:17 PM

    Thanks for that video. It seems certain it was a rocket now, but the direction still seems to be coming down from up instead of up from down... but I thought of the sunlight thing and I guess the Chinese rocket might have only been a little later at night, leaving the smoke to be lit like that.

    So. Rocket... and maybe just a lower trajectory.

    YES. Make THEM feed YOU.

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  12. Bluebear210/8/10, 6:40 PM

    Space shuttle launch trajectory...

    Reaches 60 mile altitude at 141 miles down range. Altitude remains relatively level all the way out to over 900 miles down range.

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