The best I ever saw was a huge Earth grazer about 17 years ago. A massive
fireball travelled from almost the western horizon and dissapeared over the
eastern. It seemed like it must have taken 30-60 seconds to do it. Imagine
the Trenton fireball at night and that's what it was like. I've never seen
anything like it since.
Cheers,
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Catterton" <star_wars_collec...@yahoo.com>
To: "Dave Myers" <whitefalcons...@yahoo.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!
I saw a really nice one on the way to the recent MAG meeting. I first
thought it was for 10 seconds, but more close to the time for me to tell my
wife "oh my god, look at that one!" then it went out.
I tried to find out more about it, but had no luck.
That was the biggest and brightest one I think I have ever seen. Kinda nice
early in the morning on the way to a meteorite meeting.
Greg Catterton
www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com
IMCA member 4682
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--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Dave Myers <whitefalcons...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dave Myers <whitefalcons...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!
To: "Jeff Grossman" <jgross...@usgs.gov>, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks"
<meteoritem...@gmail.com>
Cc: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:33 PM
Hi list,
I have never been lucky enough to see a bolide, or
fire-ball.
But I have in my life seen 3 that were bright green, 2 That
made a loud hissing or swishing noise. But this past
november, I seen a very
Bright white one start directly over head and head south
east, as the bright light burnt out, for a few tenths of a
second, the object just glowed bright red, went dim, and
glowed about half as bright again, no tail.
I would think this object made it through the lowest levels
of the atmosphere. Anyone ever had an encounter like that!
Thanks
Dave
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