[BenLurkin]

Painting of The Meteor of 1860 by Hudson River School artist Frederic Church.
(Credit: Frederic Church, courtesy of Judith Filenbaum Hernstadt).

[Doctor 2Brains]

for later

[Kip Russell]

The best fireball I ever saw was 20 years ago while driving at night in the Middle Of Nowhere, Arizona...it was about as bright as a full moon, and green. Lasted about 10 seconds.

[RegulatorCountry]

That’s a gorgeous painting. Works on a number of levels beyond pastoral landscape, into impressionism and even as an abstract. Very skilled use of color.

It is peculiar in hindsight, just how many noteworthy world events appear to have been heralded by spectacular sights in the sky. Selective memory, maybe? It’s an old notion. Not a good thing, war, pestilence, famine, death of kings.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Red_Devil 232]

"A meteor procession occurs when an incoming meteor breaks up upon reentry(?) into our atmosphere at an oblique angle."