Posted on 11/14/2005 10:08:29 PM PST by El Gato
Surely you must mean it's the Alaskan "bush's" fault. LOL ;)
Halo around the moon is usually a sign of rain.
Nam Vet
I live for that sort of thing. The metals in the meteorite oxidized and/or burned during the vaporization. It was probably a nickel or iron core meterorite with copper or barium chloride mixed in.
This was in the 90's, but even then I was scared something had struck the DC area. I was living 2 miles from the Pentagon at the time.
That's another cool aspect. A lot of folks think the meteorites make landfall nearby because they appear to vanish just beyond the horizon and leave a huge glow behind. Actually, the meteorite is typically still moving, still many miles up, and lighting up the sky as it incinerates.
Space is creepy stuff! Makes me feel all small and mortal.
I find outer space to be very comforting. Every time I look up and see all those stars, I feel like I am gazing at the very face of God.
Nam Vet
It was just another French car, it has been a common site lately, so don't worry about it and go back to bed.
PS: Might be a few more of those.
Outside her range of COGNITION, I would say.
I.e. it wasn't so bright as it was UNUSUAL.
Just a thought!
Sweet Jesus, I just got home from that game an hour ago (I live in Philly, my girlfriend's family are die-hard Eagles fans).
You could have heard a fly sneeze in the stadium at that moment.
I didn't see anything from my condo here in Kansas City.
Post 43;) LOL
What direction and how high above the horizon? Two angles and I can work out the altitude, although the distance between Killeen and Garland is enough to have to take the curve of the earth into account. But I know how to do that. I hope.
Probably ice crystals, probably fairly high up.
No I don't think so. To get a visible shift at optical wavelengths, the speed would have to be much higher than even a meteorite or reentering satellite, tankage, etc.
Besides that's not what I described. The middle part had color, the left and right ends were just off white.
I saw that one in my search, but discounted it somewhat. It's possible that this was a large and late piece of that shower, but I don't think the direction was right for the Taurids either.
That flash was pretty white, maybe about the color of those new slightly bluish headlight bulbs. The green was visible for a very short period up on the trail.
What direction and how high in the sky? We'll figure out where this thing was. But if you saw it in LA, it would have been about 6 PM your time, it had to be really high, especially considering that it was north-northeast of central Texas.
I was walking northwest. The trail seemed to be roughly northeast, I would say. It was pretty high on the horizon--almost overhead, but a few degrees lower to the eastern horizon. I don't know exactly what time it was, but I seem to remember looking at the clock before I left, and it being around 8:20. The spot I saw it was less than a minute from the house.
I've seen plenty of meteorites. We used to lay in the pool and watch them in the summer time. Those were from a particular shower, although I don't recall which ones. they came in from fairly low to the east around midnight, this was in Texas as well.
This one didn't last long at all, although it could have before I saw it. I just never experienced that "FLASH" effect before. Wish I'd been looking towards it, rather than away at that instant.
You're probably right. I love the night sky and all the wonders it brings, but I'm not an expert on things that glow in the night. :)
Thanks for the link. I reported it as accurately as I could.
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