Posted on 11/14/2005 10:08:29 PM PST by El Gato
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I didn't see Flash, but I thought I saw Green Lantern.
Earth is in a shooting gallery, between our own space junk and interplanetary chunks of rock being thrown our way it's a wonder we're still here.
Nuke Strike
Just a radio play. Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Interesting that you say the ground lit up green. A few years ago my husband and I were coming home and we saw something like this. We didn't see anything falling, just a green glow that spread out and was gone almost as fast as we saw it. At 1st we thought a plane had crashed but nothing was ever reported.
You are joking about the Doppler effect, I hope, with respect to visible color.
Unless the meteor was traveling close to the speed of light.
OTOH, were it "whizzing", or making other noise, the frequencies would change according to Doppler.
You saw a classic fireball meteor (bolide). Re-entering space debris is much slower and is visible for a longer period of time. Exactly what I saw with the largest of the fireballs of the Leonids back around 2000.
The overwhelming majority of these do not involve anything actually hitting the ground (meteorites.)
from Coast to Coast last week...did it look like this...links for MP and RAM
David K. writes: "On 11/7/05 at approximately 3:28AM in northeastern Michigan, a fellow police officer and I witnessed a large meteor entering the atmosphere, initially exploding, lighting up the night sky then trailing some distance before it disintegrated.
Although I witnessed the spectacle at the same time but at a different location as a fellow officer, the other officer caught it on his in car video camera. Thought you might like this video clip. From your long time listeners in blue."
http://mfile.akamai.com/5022/wmv/coast.download.akamai.com/5022/clips/05/11/110805_meteor.asx
http://mfile.akamai.com/5022/rm/coast.download.akamai.com/5022/clips/05/11/110805_meteor.ram
We have so much junk up there it could have been anything. No major meteor shower scheduled. Enjoy the show.
It was eerie, because I was under a tree, and it was bright enough to cast a shadow of the branches on the sidewalk. I kind of ducked and covered reflexively. Curiously, my dog is terrified of lights for some reason, but she didn't take notice of it at all. Maybe it was outside of her range of vision?
That is just too damn funny.
Most bright bolides are not associated with a specific meteor shower; there are plenty of "sporadics" sort of randomly coming in from all over the place.
It's Bush's Fault
I am in L.A. and I saw it.
Bright white and lasted about a second and a half.
Anybody that saw this fireball can report it here:
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html
With enough reports they actually can calculate a speed and orbit of the entering meteor which is pretty cool.
Ouch! I thought the Doppler effect for illuminated objects applied to MUCH slower speeds! I was used to it being explained with the "flashlight demonstration", so I thought that might have been the same thing going on here.
Let me go see.........nope nothing out there.
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