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Originally Posted by cazza132
At about 9pm, we spotted a strange streak. Looked like a huge comet, but was moving too fast for that. I could not believe my eyes! We couldn’t come up with an answer for this strange phenomenon at the time. It started overhead and slowly moved westward over a period of 10 minutes and spanned more than 90 degrees across the sky. It ended up being a rocket fuel dump from a Centaur stage of an Atlas V rocket launched December 6th (7:13 UT) and it passed over Australia, setting at about 9:10 local time, 11:10 UT.
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Wow!! impressive images mate
Thanks for the info about the rocket dump, I saw it as well and it had me wondering what on earth it could be.
Cheers
Jo