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spaceship? no! can you see a satellite from the ground?

i was camping last night and i saw a solid white light with no red blinking flying in the sky. it was going about as fast as a 747 would be at cruising speed and altatude but it looked to be EXTREAMLY far up, mayby out of the atmisphere. where ther any comets that would have been visible from minnesota last saturday night? if your gonna answer with alian storys please answer someone elses quetion

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Probably a satellite (yes, they can often be seen from the ground), or even the ISS going over. I also saw the ISS last night, from southeastern Wisconsin, just after 10 PM CDT, headed from northwest to east, about 30 degrees above the horizon. Sound like what you saw?

  • 1 decade ago

    Of course you can! Some people make a hobby out of it.

    Did you see it in the early evening? Satellites are visible only when they're not in the Earth's shadow, meaning that you won't likely see them near midnight.

    Was it moving generally west to east? (Or NW to SE, or SW to NE, etc.) Satellites are launched with the Earth's rotation (west to east), because it saves fuel.

    Did it suddenly disappear as it moved west? That would have been it moving into the Earth's shadow. (If you saw it pre-dawn, it would have *appeared* out of nowhere.)

    N.B. Comets do not whiz across the sky like that. Regardless of what you saw on the made-for-TV movie.

  • 1 decade ago

    yes you can see satellites from the ground a bright white look like star, doesnt twinkle, it not a plane so year its a satellite i see them quite alot in england, i lay on my trampoline sometimes and see a satellite go one way then watch it come back the opposite way its really cool or ill watch em go buy then the next night i see it come past again. i watch em when im bored ill see about 3 a night its really cool.

  • 1 decade ago

    When you see a "star" traveling across the sky, it's usually a satellite or piece of space debris.

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  • DT3238
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Probably the ISS (space station). It is very bright.

    You can find out when it should have been visible from Minnesota from nasa.gov.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sure, you can see satellites from the ground.

    Doug

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