What is this heavenly object?

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Hint - it's not a comet!Shuttle with water dump.  Copyright Clair Perry

9 Comments

  1. Niall

    Iridium Satellite Flare.

  2. JM

    I give up. It sure looks like a comet:- it has a tail (long exposure photo as shown by the smeared out star images) and is moving against the background stars (again because it is sharp while stars are streaked)

    What is it then Nick?

  3. Nicholas Gruen

    Jacques was not joking.

  4. FDB

    Wholly shit!

  5. Nicholas Gruen

    Close. Actually it was holy shit.

  6. FDB

    A scatellite?

    A vomit comet?

    Puns are the ordure of the day, you see.

  7. Nicholas Gruen

    'Scatellite' I'll pay. Vomit comet is not a pun. It's a rhyme.

  8. James Rice

    The Skatalites? There's also this song...

  9. FDB

    Yes, perhaps "vomet" would have been funnier, though still not a pun. What is one of them things? Pormanteau?