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Old 11-22-2008, 08:22 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Bill L View Post
Looked like three planets?

You can't mistake Mars--it's usually copper red. Mercury is normally too low in the sky to be seen, and it's not readily visible to the naked eye. So if there was a third planet, it would probably be Saturn.

Update--what you saw may have been the space shuttle, not a third planet. I'm told it was visible there around 5:30.

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