ROSSLAND – (CP) – An amateur
astronomist here says Kootenay residents may
not have seen Russia’s earth satellite
Sputnik.
R. D. McAllister believes it was the planet
Venus, “the evening star”, that persons
thought was the satellite.
“Any object that can be viewed for five
minutes in one part of the sky is certainly
not Sputnik. At 18,000 miles an hour it would
cross the horizon in less than five minutes,”
he said.
HOMEPAGE