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Old 12-13-2002, 03:16 PM   #18
MaggieL
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Originally posted by Uryoces

One night, I was looking at a broken cloud cover, and I saw a bright satellite pass overhead. Then I saw a second one in the same orbit, then I saw a third. Three co-orbiting objects. I could understand a Progress module on an approach with MIR, but not three objects.
There are a boatload of survelliance satelites in polar low-earth orbit, and many of them are ground observable. Did these sats pretty much transit from due south to due north or vice versa? If so that's probably what you saw.
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