I just watched the International Space Station pass over my home

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Norm Smith Medallist
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I saw it again this morning, and there was what I gather was a satellite orbiting on a similar path. I had no idea that satellites were visible with the naked eye. Google told me this:

'if you have relatively dark skies, the odds are that you should not have to wait more than 15 minutes before you see one of the more than 35,000 satellites now in orbit .......Most of these "satellites" are actually just "space junk" ranging in size from as large as 30 feet, down to about the size of a softball.
......depending on who's counting, several hundred can be spotted with the unaided eye. These are the satellites that are large enough (typically more than 20 feet in length) and low enough (100 to 400 miles above Earth) to be most readily seen a sunlight reflects off them.


https://www.space.com/6870-spot-satellites.html#:~:text=But%20depending%20on%20who's%20counting,a%20sunlight%20reflects%20off%20them.
 

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