Auroras and a fuel dump
Taken by Marketa S Murray on March 29, 2022 @
Fairbanks - Alaska
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Aurora webcam captured probably the results of a fuel dump from a booster rocket that put a satellite into orbit. They use multi-stage rockets to put a satellite into orbit. They often shut down the upper stage because they have reached the orbit they want. Weeks, maybe months later, when the upper stage booster and satellite are far apart, then vent the fuel, which typically causes an expanding cloud as the rocket fuel oxides with atomic oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Many similar sightings have occurred over the middle of the United States for satellites put into equatorial orbit. Our guess is, we saw the result of putting a polar orbiting satellite up.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Boston, Massachusetts, says sightings of the orb in Alaska correspond with the flight of a Chinese satellite deployment rocket.
“I am very confident that what people saw was the dumping of fuel from a Chinese rocket stage,” he said. “This rocket — the Longmarch 6A or Chang Zheng 6A — was launched early on March 29 from China, placed 2 satellites in orbit and, calculating its orbital path, it passed over the Yukon area about 350 miles up at exactly the time that this glow was seen in the Alaskan sky.”
https://www.ktoo.org/2022/04/05/glowing-orb-interior-alaska/
Photographer's website:
https://www.TheAuroraChasers.com
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