Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk
or a sign of assent for King Charles III, the new British monarch – were probably disappointed when astronomers at the UK Meteor Network said it was nothing more than a lone deorbiting SpaceX satellite disintegrating in the atmosphere.
"Most meteors enter the atmosphere between around 75,000 and 80,000 mph," John Maclean, an astronomer with the network,"Whereas space junk is slower at 25,000 to 30,000 mph. As a result space junk is visible across the sky for much longer. A meteor would be a matter of a few seconds, whereas this was visible for 20 seconds. That's too slow for [a] meteor."that had an"asteroidal orbit" and a speed of"14.
"We have checked the Starlink de-orbit and it would not have come anywhere near the UK. At this point we cannot find any known space junk or satellite de-orbit that could account for this fireball," the UK Meteor Network said in an update on Thursday. OK. The final analysis is in! The fireball over NI and Scotland last night was definitely a meteor. The fireball observed yesterday above the UK lasted over 20 seconds and traveled NW, passing directly over Belfast. 1/4
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