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This is what I wrote at Quora.com when I asked about it the night I saw it, when I was staring directly at the Andromeda galaxy. It was fresh in my memory when I wrote this, but I could be wrong where I guessed the origin. Best go with my observation.:
"I saw a meteor that was really slow, looked like burning magnesium (bright white), was fat but not gassy, and was flying exactly southeast about 7:45 pm EST, catching the Earth from above and behind. What was it?
It passed directly between me and the Andromeda galaxy, seemingly perpendicular to my line of sight.
Because it was flying exactly southeast about 7:45 pm EST, this puts it just under 2 hours after sunset, and probably inclined 50 degrees or more from the plane of the ecliptic. So if it's a meteor it was catching the Earth from above and a little behind. This was November 8th, 2017, at about 40 deg N lat, 84W. Was it a known piece of space junk?"
I should add something about how it burned. "Fat but not gassy". I've often seen meteors leave trails of fire and burning debris, which I call "fat" and "gassy". However, most meteors are the thinnest of streaks, not fat at all, just pencil-thin, pure light. This particular meteor was unique. It burned really "fat", but was pure light. No debris or smoke or lingering embers.
And it flew much more slowly than the common meteor showers' thin, fast streaks. It flew slowly, like the ones I've seen being "fat and gassy".
It was very unique that's why I suspect it was space junk.
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