From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 21:05:39 PST
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050208.html A Mysterious Streak Above Hawaii
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: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 21:18:18 PST
Credit: Night Sky Live<http://nightskylive.net/> Collaboration
Explanation: What in heavens-above was that? Not everything seen on the night sky is understood. The Night Sky Live<http://nightskylive.net/> (NSL) project keeps its global array of continuously updating web cameras (CONCAMs) always watching the night sky. On the night of 2004 December 17, the fisheye<http://www.zeta.org.au/~andrewa/ajaa31.htm> CONCAM perched on top of an active volcano<http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanoes/haleakala/main.html> in Haleakala<http://nightskylive.net/hl/>, Hawaii<http://www.state.hi.us/>, saw something moving across the night sky that remains mysterious. The NSL team might have disregard the above streak as unconfirmed, but the Mauna Kea CONCAM<http://nightskylive.net/mk/> on the next Hawaiian island recorded the same thing<http://nightskylive.net/mk/mk041217/mk041217ut142325p.jpg>. The NSL team might then have disregard the streak as a satellite, but no record of it was found in the heavens-above.com<http://www.heavens-above.com/> site that usually documents bright satellite events. If you think you have a reasonable explanation<http://badastronomy.com/bad/misc/index.html> for the streak, please contribute to the on-line discussion<http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?t=291>. Current candidates include a known satellite<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991022.html> that was somehow missed by heavens-above<http://heavens-above.com/>, a recently launched rocket<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041212.html>, and a passing space<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031015.html> rock. Volunteers are solicited<http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/viewtopic.php?t=385> by the NSL project to help monitor the operability of each NSL CONCAM, including looking for interesting anomalies<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html> such as this. Disclosure: Robert Nemiroff<http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn.html> collaborates on both the NSL<http://nightskylive.net/> and APOD<http://apod.nasa.gov/> projects.
