I was driving west on 237 and crossing Middlefield when I saw the fireball at 7:42 PM. It was bright white, moving very fast, and headed in an almost-vertical trajectory (maybe 5 degrees off vertical). It seemed to have burned out just before it hit the ground, maybe a couple thousand feet altitude. Just before it burned out, it seemed to split into several smaller pieces. I guesstimated it hit in the coastal range, maybe between Palo Alto and Half Moon Bay.
What a spectacular sight -- first time in my life I've seen a meteor fireball.
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; Saoirise
2 posted on
02/15/2013 10:00:16 PM PST by
444Flyer
(Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the Terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
To: Las Vegas Dave
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Aw heck, it did not wipe out SF? I know, shut up, a few conservatives still live there, and Frankenfinswine was probably not home.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Maybe the Mayan calendar was a few months off.
5 posted on
02/15/2013 10:03:21 PM PST by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
What a spectacular sight -- first time in my life I've seen a meteor fireball. I've seen lots of shooting stars and a few meteors, but never that close or spectacular.
6 posted on
02/15/2013 10:05:17 PM PST by
umgud
To: ProtectOurFreedom
7 posted on
02/15/2013 10:07:03 PM PST by
Batman11
(We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
8 posted on
02/15/2013 10:07:09 PM PST by
Batman11
(We came for the chicken sandwiches and a Sweet Tea Party broke out!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is a truly amazing sight. I'm glad you were able to witness it. I've only seen it once myself.
It was about a week before Christmas 1995. Some of my coworkers and I were walking to our cars, shortly before midnight, when there was a streak of light and a brilliant flash of light high over our heads. It was bright enough that it cast shadows off the light poles in the parking lot. I never saw anything on the news, but I figure the only thing it could have been was a meteor exploding high in the atmosphere.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I saw it from Tacoma Wa. (Puyallup).
Sitting outside at my fire pit facing south.
Lasted about 1.5 seconds headed straight down.
Looked white from here. Bigger than any comet I ever saw.
Not really eye catching I was just looking at the sky in that spot
Very fast.
To: Vendome; null and void
To: ProtectOurFreedom; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
Here's what really happened!
13 posted on
02/15/2013 10:12:13 PM PST by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Goodness! Gracious! Great balls of fire!
15 posted on
02/15/2013 10:12:49 PM PST by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
How many more rocks are up there are coming down? How big are they and where are the headed? I heard there were reports of ‘lights’ over Burbank last night. Are meteorites fracturing and raining down in various spots in tiny bits?
18 posted on
02/15/2013 10:14:52 PM PST by
444Flyer
(Obama killed the Twinkie, but not the Terrorists in Benghazi. What's wrong with this picture?)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Maybe we’ll get a few nights of good sky-watching for meteor showers.
21 posted on
02/15/2013 10:16:39 PM PST by
MaxMax
To: 2Fro; all_mighty_dollar; Arkat Kingtroll; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Betis70; billycat95130; ...
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Streaking in SF isn’t news.
24 posted on
02/15/2013 10:19:08 PM PST by
rfp1234
(Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
To: 2Fro; all_mighty_dollar; Arkat Kingtroll; Battle Hymn of the Republic; Betis70; billycat95130; ...
To: ProtectOurFreedom
It’s aliens. They’re searching for Commies. Couldn’t find any in Russia so now they’re looking in California.
44 posted on
02/15/2013 10:58:56 PM PST by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
and one from the other side-
To: ProtectOurFreedom
All these meteors in the last few days are the kind of stuff that can give a person a feeling of nervousness and unease.
And by ‘a person’ I mean me.
This is some serious omen level stuff.
I can’t begin to imagine how this sort of thing must have looked to people in the past who had little or no understanding of space.
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