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Warpy

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11. One of Musk's Starlink satellites?

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Mon Oct 20, 2025, 01:35 AM

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It's as good an explanation as anything else. Could have been anything from a stratospheric ice chunk to a very small meteor. Or it could have been any otjher sizable piece of space junk. There's certainly enough ot it up there.

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