The asteroid like rocks were very irregularly shaped, like potatoes, and they seemed to be orbiting, but not touching, the glowing object. When I was a kid, I told people I saw another solar system with it's asteroid belt, but as an adult, I know that couldn't have been what I saw because this was just a home telescope.
That would have helped if I could remember the exact date/time. I just remember I was in elementary school, and it was the cold time of the year (January, probably) and close to midnight.
8th_House_Stellium OP t1_iw9acbj wrote
Reply to comment by AdoltTwittler in I saw something with a 16" scope as a kid--it was a softly glowing yellow-orange ball with two irregular asteroid-like rocks on either side of it. It was the middle of the night and I pointed my telescope straight up. Nobody has ever been able to tell me what I saw. It was too yellow to be Mars. by 8th_House_Stellium
They didn't appear to be moving, and the two smaller objects were much dimmer than the glowing orange thing. The smaller objects were grayish brown.