Bootham School Observatory: 09/30/12

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Sunday 30 September 2012

Bolide over Bootham?

Edmund Fisher, USnr, took this interesting picture two Saturdays ago at sunset. The object right at the top of the frame was moving quickly, and soon passed out of sight.

It is very likely that this was a bolide, which is an unusually bright "shooting star", but the timing and direction - it appears to be travelling just slightly west of south make it possible that Edmund saw part of the space debris that was seen the night before, as described in this article.