I was lying down at the beach and was watching the sky, i saw a star moving i kept on watching it for a long distance and couldn't follow it what is it ?
i don't think they are meteoroids as they fall from sky and get burnt off in s short period.
2007-03-27 19:01:56 · 16 answers · asked by samuels1984 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Airplane most likely, or possibly the international space station.
2007-03-27 19:04:29 · answer #1 · answered by mike b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you have probably have seen is called a falling star or shooting star but it is not a star it is meteors burning up as they enter earths atmosphere, the atmosphere protects the earth being thicker than the moons atmosphere which is thin and probably why the moon is full of craters. If meteor gets trough earth's atmosphere it is then called a meteorite.
2007-03-28 02:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by terrano 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If there were no blinking lights associated with this object, it was undoubtedly an artificial satellite in orbit around Earth.
2007-03-28 02:11:38 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our Space Station?
2007-03-28 02:20:53 · answer #4 · answered by bichomau1965 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
most likely was a satelite. people confuse them for meteorites and comets all the time b/c without a telescope its so hard to tell.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SHOOTING STAR!!!!
2007-03-28 02:05:22 · answer #5 · answered by comic book guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mabe weather balloon or plane of somekind you need a telescope before you really over react they have them now where they can snap pictures
2007-03-28 02:06:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could have been just a plain old airplane.
2007-03-28 03:11:08 · answer #7 · answered by justmemimi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is an easy way to tell...
go to the same spot today, at the same time and watch..
if you see it again, at the same time, its a satellite..
there is one i can see here, (india, karnataka, Manipal) at 7.40 everyday...
2007-03-28 02:16:59 · answer #8 · answered by Vishnu Unnikrishnan 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Satellite most probably.
2007-03-28 02:03:31 · answer #9 · answered by indieforcutie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where were you when you saw this? That would help us sort out what it might have been
2007-03-28 02:09:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋