Strange object passing in front of Mars #shorts

Heads up I'm resurrecting this clip from 2018 in order to get more subs and because its quite fun. I personally think the object is a party balloon that has somehow managed to rise very high up into the atmosphere without popping but I don't know for sure.

Here are details of the capture:
Date 1st Sept 2018 Time: 20.55.20 GMT
location: North London 51 34' 53" N -0 06' 17" W
The video is shooting at 100fps and the frame size in 320x280. This is pretty standard for planetary imaging.

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[jaudyparcon]

Asteroid: you guys are insane, im never going to pass on a planet again

[utsavman]

I really like how irrational scepticism strikes to the point of calling something flying along with Mars as a bug.

[channel_currently_unavailable]

That one asteroid: awh they missed my birthday again😔

[Zander]

So this is definitely way too big to directly be phobos or deimos, but it could be the Martian equivalent of a solar eclipse. That dark spot is probably the penumbra (basically the shadow) of one of the moons. Since deimos is too small and far from Mars, we can conclude that the dark spot is the shadow of phobos.

With a date and time we could prove/disprove this theory. Another way to disprove it would be the time interval between those frames. If that was real-time, it probably actually wasn't an eclipse.

[darthvader]

It's the Death Star. Earth has failed me for the last time.



This commentnt thread blew up! Wow, I never anticipated that. To you all, thanks, may the force be with you.

[scooby]

It's my lost love life. Never to return again.

[wayneterry]

You are doing an amazing job that 90% of the world will not understand

[babyboysmooth]

Damn my first immediate thought was "cool, a moon"

[timothygooding]

Given how large the shadow is it could've been a near-earth asteroid

[SonicGasoline]

*Rock minding its own business in space*

some guy watching from millions of km away:
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[markmiller]

I’m pretty sure the guy would know if he saw Phobos and Deimos

[Mshagy]

For those saying it was a moon, that thing was moving way to fast so no it was not a martian moon

[marcellclark]

"A fly on the lens??? A fly on the lens? I know the difference between a man on the moon and Gawddayumn fly on my lens"!!!!

[anthonyvallad]

"what was that?"
"must have been the wind"

[andrewmaslanka]

That was my home run from high school. It never came back down.

[jamiemcconnell]

Could've been a large asteroid passing quite close to earth or one of Mars' moons

[iiii]

It's a bug outside the earths atmosphere, duh.

[juggernautjim]

It's Elon just surveying for his next housing development

[angelolivarez]

I have seen that through my telescope, and it kept on passing about every other minute or so. I figured it had to be a moon.

[GamingWithNOAO]

Might be one of the moons shadow, like Phobos or Deimos, you can can calculate the specific transit time and period based on the time of the recording and position on Earth