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Fascinating video -- the slow speed and fracturing into a bunch of bits make me wonder of that was a meteor at all, or if it was another space debris incident. Not that it CAN'T be a meteor, but if'n I was guessing I'd have gone with something...

I tried to match it with Sitrec, but the decaying satellite rocket body CZ-2C (28222) was not observable from the camera site. However, the orbit may have degraded rapidly since the last TLE available from SpaceTrack, thus changing where it...

Also, it looks like it was predicted Reentry Prediction Predicted Reentry Time 15 Sep 2026 13:17 UTC...

I just saw this report from earlier today of lights over the Fergus Falls area. Not a lot of information at this point. https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/09/15/mysterious-lights-reported-around-region/ Source...

Just saying. I only participate on one other thread, about RVs, which recently switched from it's previous clunky host to XenForo, like Mick uses here. While it's an improvement over the previous service, it's still night and day compered to what...

How do you do that?

Doesn't it translate if you go to Reddit?

I don't think they have actually examined the original plates. However I think they would say they have shown that the transients can't be emulsion artifacts because their distribution has been shown to correlate with the Earth's shadow. But even...

I don't think they have actually examined the original plates. However I think they would say they have shown that the transients can't be emulsion artifacts because their distribution has been shown to correlate with the Earth's shadow. But even...

A comparison of the digitised images (DSS, SSS) used by Villarroel et al. with the original POSS1 plates (or negatives if extant) would be the most efficient way to rule out reprographic errors. The apparently restricted access to the POSS1...

Beyond that, even if the originals are examined, as suggested: "The best way to exclude the possibility of contamination causing the simultaneous transients is by examining the original photographic plates with a microscope. Unfortunately, we...

Hambly and Blair suggest that Villarroel et al. worked from digitized images (from the DSS and SSS, see quote below). The digitised images were copied from glass copies of the POSS1 plates. The data analysed [by Villarroel et al., John J.] came...

I took that to be the second level of the joke. ;)

I hate to be debby downer, but not only is there no causation there, there's also no correlation, either expressed or implied. Correlation requires numerical quantities, not boolean predicates. To make it mathematically correct joke, the...