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vick

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Dec 23, 2007, 11:14 pm

What's that bright yellow thing orbiting the MOON tonight Dec 23 2007?

I have been tracking it and it is definitely rotating as the moon does, so not a star.

Is it a recent satellite sent up there? I'm thinking the Japanese one?
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Dec 23, 2007, 11:19 pm

I am going to run out and take a look.

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Dec 23, 2007, 11:33 pm

I looked at it thru binoculars, looks like a star.
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Dec 23, 2007, 11:44 pm

i thought at first it was also a star, but it seems to be rotating counterclockwise around the moon. Example, i noticed it at about 6 with it located at about the 5 oclock postion, then i saw it every few hourse and it progrossed counterclockwise to it current position of about 2 oclock?

All this while the moves itself moves across the sky.

Also the light, while looking through binoculars, seems to be a yellowish reflected light, ie the sun shinning on it then to our eyes here on Earth.

Will watch it tommorrow too. Maybe it's a Christmas sign or my numbers are due !! ))
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Dec 24, 2007, 12:09 am

From what I gather it is mars. really quite visible with the clear sky.
http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/Cumbrian-Sky/entries/2007/12/23/mars-and-moon-rendezvous-in-the-sky-tonight.../3261

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Dec 24, 2007, 12:14 am

Yes Jap69, that must be it, MARS.

It does have that red-yellowish color of it.

Thanks, cause for a moment i thought the aliens had a ship up there watching us.
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Dec 24, 2007, 12:14 pm

Must be mars, they are about 8º apart now.
I have to get out the telescope and show the grandkids.
(they call it a microscope, little cuties )
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Dec 24, 2007, 12:48 pm

Did some reading this morning. It is Mars, but I don't recall Mars ever being that close to the moon. Earth is supposed to pass between Mars and the sun soon, and Mars is the closest it will be to Earth until 2010.
By the way, the star Sirius really looks cool right now.
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Dec 24, 2007, 12:52 pm

Nah, even Santa doesn't want to pay $3.29 a gallon, so he rented a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Dec 24, 2007, 8:33 pm

Quote: Originally posted by vick on Dec 23, 2007
What's that bright yellow thing orbiting the MOON tonight Dec 23 2007?

I have been tracking it and it is definitely rotating as the moon does, so not a star.

Is it a recent satellite sent up there? I'm thinking the Japanese one?

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