Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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one large meteorite enter underneath U3
Conrad
Observed quite a few underneat h us-­
Cooper
There was ver-✓ seldom a night went by that you
couldn't watch just for a few minutes to see a
micrometeorite or two of them enter.
One meteorite
came from a l ong way out burning and went in under­
neath, There were two other si gnificant things.
One was the observation of the moon.
The moon was
rising out of the airglow.
We had about a quarter
moon and you couli seo the entire moon lit partially
and then t he one part o:f i t lit brighter. It
r eally appeared in three dimensional wlth the sun
back over back off the horizon light:L-15 it.
This
was quite spectacular, I thought.
I bought .i.t
l ooked very unusual.
The other observa.ti0ns in t :'le
vicinity of the Magellanic Clouds, and actually in
the vicinity where this Gegenschein Li1sht is- ­
i t appeared to me to be two to three a:~eas that
looked like Magellanic Clouds, only mu~h smaller.
.·, !
There were two or three other little Magellanic
Cloud-appearing thi!lgs,
'l'hey weren't elusters or
anything.
I think you noticed them several times
too over there when we we~e fiddling around the
Magellanic..Clouds, I never could decid•~ what they