New satellites

Hahahaha... Haven't thought about that astronomical episode in a long time... To get the facts straight, I saw this thing which looked like a star right next to the moon, for the first time in my life. Never having seen any other heavenly body right next to the moon, I was naturally rather curious, and more than a little excited upon seeing this sight. I promptly called up Sidler, and he confirmed that what I was seeing really did exist, and wasn't just a product of my imagination. Upon this, I jumped to my first conclusion:

"It's a new man-made satellite!!!"

I called up G next, proposed my theory to him, asked him if he had a pair of binoculars, and suggested we three convene on his terrace to study this new object in the sky more closely. He sounded a little dubious about the satellite theory, but agreed to take part in the investigation.

Oh, did I mention, Sidler was as excited as I was (a statement which he'll hotly contest, no doubt... :P). He came running from two blocks away, practically beside himself with excitement, and ran up the stairs to G's place at full tilt, after which he spent the next ten minutes gasping for breath.

G led us up to his terrace, and armed with a pair of 'beach binoculars' [:D], we studied the object to the best of our abilities... Various theories were propounded, most of them by an admittedly somewhat enthusiastic lastknight [:P], including the particularly exciting idea that it was a supernova... After about an hour of this, it dawned on us that we had exams not far away, and we regretfully went back to our respective homes. We may not have solved the mystery, nor did the next day's newspaper mention anything about a new supernova [:P], but it had certainly been a rather fun evening.

Oh, and as always, G beat me to to it, with the post about our erstwhile phone calls... :) Yes, like the man said, there was indeed a time when our telephonic conversations were thirty seconds long... :D