(meteorobs) Off Topic Maybe Sometime in December 1957

[prospector at znet.com]

Is there a name? How about trying satellrite for a name for space junk that
fell to Earth?
                          Dave English
                      Oceanside, California


> But if we use 1957 as a starting date,  what is the name for  man-made
> stuff that shoots across the sky at night (?) and  falls to earth in
> with a blazing  tail?