Starship Asterisk*

>>"As for my own view: I am pretty sure that it is a fuel dump." If so, is it possible that the momentum of the fuel and the rotation of the Earth could make the object 'seem' to move, relative to the background stars, about 52 degrees within 20 minutes? The first image at 14:19UT shows th...

You are looking at a 'fast moving object'. For similar images, look at the following page from the "Spacewatch Project" http://fmo.lpl.arizona.edu/FMO_home/tutorial.cfm "asteroids moving so close to the Earth that the object appears as a trail in our image data. This event is created ...