Reported by edhat readers
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Wednesday night about 6pm my wife and I saw a series of at least 20 fairly fast moving objects in the sky. They appeared to be about the same size as Venus and were moving in a southwest to northeast direction. Evenly spaced and following one another like a train. We assumed that they were a series of satellites. Does anyone have better information?
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We watched a long line of jets or something in the sky at about 6:00 p.m. tonight. Maybe 30 or 40 in perfect single file. They were moving rapidly across the sky to the east until they reached a certain point where they vanished. Anybody else see it?
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In addition to the visual blight, these vast constellations of satellites will hamper our large scientific survey telescopes, which are also tasked with detecting potentially hazardous asteroids. If there is a satellite collision, the resulting clouds of debris are likely to cause a runaway chain reaction of collisions that will destroy satellites within wide altitude ranges, and effectively shut us out from launching anything safely.
Google Kessler Syndrome.