Does anybody know exactly how big it could have been if it was a meteor? Ive seen hundreds of meteors in my life . None like this!|||It's not a comet, it's the Centaur upperstage of an Atlas V rocket that just launched a secret spy satellite less than an hour ago. I spotted it and looked at the comet like cloud of hydrogen and oxygen the Centaur vented into space after releasing the satellite. Through my 6-inch telescope, I clearly saw the Centaur and satellite drifting away from each other, and the fan like cloud of propellants vented into space. All drifted slowly in front of the background stars.|||Umm if it is a "secret satellite" how do YOU know about it. Wouldn't that make it an un-secret satellite.|||i saw it to....i have been researching it for the past 40 mins or so. Just call me a spaz. I live in SC and saw it almost directly above me...i only took a glimpse of it for 5 mins but, it was the most abstract thing...that i have seen in a while. People are saying that it was seen in Maine, and yesterday, seen in germany...i dunno im not done looking into it.|||nuscorp...............
here are the stats I found on wiki about the recent launch
2007-12-10
serial-no AV-015
luanch site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Canave鈥?/a>
payload- NRO L-24 Reconnaissance satellite
orbit -Success
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/鈥?/a>
to the smart one below you, its listed as a recon sat ....... and we have it pointed right at chya|||I saw it here in Louisiana it was about 5:50 pm 12/10/07
Could only see it for about 20 min. It was not Comet Holmes from SPACEWEATHER.COM
"Two objects streaking through the cloud suggested the possibility of a rocket burn or fuel dump"--and that is the correct explanation. This cloud mimicking Comet 17P/Holmes is fuel dumped from the upper stage of an Atlas rocket that launched a classified satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office earlier this evening. It was a splendid display, now faded away.|||List Date: June 2007
Date Type Serial-no. Startplace Payload Kind of payload Orbit Outcome Remarks
August 21, 2002 401 AV-001 CC LC41 Hot Bird 6 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success First Atlas V launch
May 13 2003 401 AV-002 CC LC41 HellasSat 2 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
July 17, 2003 521 AV-003 CC LC41 Rainbow 1 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success First Atlas V 500 launch
December 17, 2004 521 AV-005 CC LC41 AMC 16 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
March 11, 2005 431 AV-004 CC LC41 Inmarsat 4-F1 Commercial communications satellite GSO Success
August 12, 2005 401 AV-007 CC LC41 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mars orbiter escape Success First Atlas V launch for NASA
January 19, 2006 551 AV-010 CC LC41 New Horizons Pluto and Kuiper Belt probe escape Success Boeing Star 48B third stage used, first Atlas V launch with a third stage
April 20, 2006 411 AV-008 CC LC41 ASTRA 1KR Commercial communications satellite GSO Success Final Atlas commercial launch for ILS
March 8, 2007 401 AV-013 CC LC41 Space Test Program-1 6 military research satellites LEO Success FalconSAT-3
June 15, 2007 401 AV-009 CC LC41 NRO L-30R (NOSS-4-3A %26amp; B) Two NRO Reconnaissance satellites LEO Partial failure (premature cutoff of Centaur upper stage) First Atlas V flight for the National Reconnaissance Office
October 11, 2007 421 AV-011 CC LC41 WGS SV-1 Military communications satellite GTO Success valve replacement[3]
2007-12-10 401 AV-015 CCAFS LC-41 NRO L-24 NRO Reconnaissance satellite Success
Thats a AV-015.NRO Reconnaissance satellite.It was launched today.
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