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Old 09-18-2007, 11:30 AM  
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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks View Post
My guess: it was an old Soviet satellite, the nuclear powered kind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RORSAT
This is highly unlikely. Possible though.

Although a majority of the nuclear cores were successfully ejected into high orbits, these orbits still decay. If left untouched, the highly radioactive cores will return to the Earth's atmosphere after several hundred years.
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