I am located 30 miles northwest of toronto and I would say the star was almost directly over head but east of my position . I was laying on my back in the pool and looking directly at the area and then POP a large flash of a millisecond. Never seen anything like it before
2006-08-01 17:08:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Little green men in a UFO taking your picture?
2006-08-01 17:12:26 · answer #1 · answered by Angie P. 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was an Iridium satellite. There are over 60 of them, and they flash periodically due to the fact that they have very reflective surfaces that only occasionally reflect the sun as they rotate.
Look it up on the internet.
Also, see www.heavens-above.com
Once you get into that website for your location it predicts Iridium flares for the the next 7 days. There's usually a few visible every night.
I use them to play tricks on people. Because the heavens above site gives the exact time and location, you get your friends to look in the sky a couple minutes before and tell them to keep staring and you will make a bright light appear.
Real fun - they'll think you are a prophet or something - try it.
2006-08-02 01:26:20 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You sure it wasn't a twinkle? I've never heard of a star just flashin' like a camera. I've heard of them fading and getting brighter back and forth.
Might also of been a plane just flashing its undercarage lights. Was it flashing about once every second to two seconds?
2006-08-02 00:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by ffasheepdog 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw something like this in Whitney, Ontario last summer. To me it seemed like a falling star but I am not entirely sure. Sometimes I find it better to not know what it was and enjoy the mistery.
2006-08-02 01:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by TheDude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it was anything noteworthy, keep track of news headlines of spacedaily.com, physorg.com, and other space-oriented news sites. Stay posted, and you'll find out if what you saw was anything of cosmic proportions or not.
Other than that - it could have been anything. Hell, it might have even been some kind of atmospheric phenomenon.
2006-08-02 00:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the star was in supernova stage
after all the gasess burn out
*well ya*
<3
2006-08-02 00:15:22 · answer #6 · answered by ballet_tigger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you saw a shooting star
2006-08-02 00:14:28 · answer #7 · answered by Jonnie B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could be anything from a satellite to a pulsar type star.
2006-08-02 02:46:09 · answer #8 · answered by Good for somethin' 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
IT may be a meteorite.....
they have also be seen in in the Indian penunsula...in the gujrat state of india........some pieces of the meteorite..... have also been found.....
2006-08-02 02:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by rajdipika 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A satlite?
2006-08-02 00:13:58 · answer #10 · answered by suppy_sup 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋