Re: [meteorite-list] Green Glow Over North Carolina Could Have Been Meteor Sh...

[GeoZay]

>>And Tammy Denning, who lives about 10 minutes south of Creedmoor, off Redwood Road, said she saw what she believed was a UFO the previous night, Sunday, while smoking outside her home.<< I wonder what she was smoking?  :o) >>"Unfortunately, I missed it myself," UNC's Carney said. He added that the object probably was a relatively large meteor from the Orionids. Faye Daniels said she was driving near Falls Lake around 8:45 p.m. Monday when the object caught her attention.<< The Orionid radiant rises near 11pm....If it was seen near 8:45 pm...it stands a better chance being a flying saucer than an orionid.  :o) >>"People can go out some clear night this week around midnight and probably see 20 to 30 meteors per hour at its peak," the astronomer said. "The nucleus of a comet is often described as a dirty iceberg. That green glow people have described might have been metals producing a variety of colors as they're burning -- copper, nickel, iron, maybe."<<   Or more than likely colors given off from atoms in the atmosphere such as nitrogen and oxygen as they get excited from the passing meteoroid. George Zay