Space junk (?) re-entering over Mexico

[Stu]

This looks pretty impressive. My guess is space junk rather than a meteor due to the relatively slow speed, but not sure.

https://news.sky.com/video/share-12535287

[Carbon Brush]

Yes impressive and slow.
I'm with the space junk theory.
Maybe wishful thinking that it is a bundle of starlink boxes🤣

[Captain Scarlet]

If you look really closely you can just about make out some hexagonal mirrors burning up 🤣 😱

Edited February 7, 2022 by Captain Scarlet

[saac]

Don't worry, Ogilvy the astronomer said that the chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one .....

[CCD-Freak]

I watched a Soviet Proton booster re-enter and break up back in the 90's and it looked much like that so I am going with space junk.....too slow for a meteor. 

 

[DaveS]

Yep, space junk I would think, too slow to be a meteor.

[tomato]

It certainly looks like orbiting hardware re-entering the atmosphere, but quite a sizeable item.

[Stu]

43 minutes ago, tomato said:

It certainly looks like orbiting hardware re-entering the atmosphere, but quite a sizeable item.

I agree, seems big enough that you would hope that someone knew it was coming down! Seems not though… 😱

[UKDiver]

2 hours ago, saac said:

Don't worry, Ogilvy the astronomer said that the chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one .....

but still...

[Roy Cropper]

I'd go with something large de-orbiting, a good sized satellite or rocket stage.

[bingevader]

Would Messers Musk, Bozo or Branston necessarily fess up to something failing that badly?!