Backyard space watcher films lost tool bag
A TOOL KIT recently lost on a spacewalk has been spotted from the ground by a backyard astronomer and filmed.
The tool bag which was lost in space and doomed to orbit unloved and ignored until Doomsday has been spotted and filmed by a backyard satellite watcher in Canada.
Astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper watched as the bag drifted away from
her while she was cleaning and greasing a gummed-up joint on a wing of solar
panels on the International Space Station.
NASA claimed the tool kit was worth $100,000 (well that's what the suppliers
charged for it) and is one of the largest items ever lost on a spacewalk.
Kevin Fetter, a veteran satellite observer in Brockville, Ontario, has spotted the lost gear using his backyard observatory and published a video of it online.
Fetter said he had planned to capture the tool bag on video as it was " something new in orbit". A satellite tracker tool on the SpaceWeather.com site allows people to determine exactly when objects such as the tool bag are going to be floating over their suburbs.
Fetter said that the object's size and how much light is reflecting off its surface determines if he can see it and film it.
He used a $900 Celestron Nexstar 102 SLT telescope fitted with a
high-resolution camera, connected to his PC. µ
L'Inq
AP
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Dr leans back, hummm, I wonder if dildoe was in Kit? Or maybe Uncle adolfs Nut? Maybe Nut Cruncher? yes,yes?

Canadian has lots o' videos of orbiting stuff, all white dots floating thru sky. Its Great World when Private Citizen can spend evening looking at complex stuff floating about.

Astronauts can keep their job, idea of drinking Urine is not palatable to Ultee'. I'd rather NOT use xp.
hahaha,aghhh.
SP Drashek
Whose goina help me?
Dammit.
if you see the video of the astronaut you'll see that it looks like she lost the bag on purpose
I'd like to know who gave her a spacesuit and let her out of the kitchen.