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Moon and satellite
I was looking at the moon recently with low magnificatin, when what looked like an old-fashioned garbage bin, bigger at one end, black, shot across the face of it. It appeared about the size of crater Plato and took about three seconds to traverse the nearly full moon. Do these size/time details fit in with it being a satellite? I suppose it must have been - if it was a bin, it was about 500 metres high. How often would you expect this to happen, a satellite transit of the moon?
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