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16 Feb 2013, 11:55 am

I've also witnessed a streak bright enough to be seen in broad daylight a few years back. They are fairly common. You only need an object the size of a pebble to create a fireball bright enough to see in broad daylight. Ones big enough to cause an audible sonic boom are pretty rare though. They would have to be the size of a grapefruit or larger. The one yesterday was probably the size of a semitrailer. The Tunguska airburst event was probably caused by an object the size of a very large house or small mansion. A typical night-time "meteor shower" consists of dust to sand sized grains.

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16 Feb 2013, 1:16 pm

Those Gua'uld are lousy shots.

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Some Rooskie civilians are claiming that the yanks have developed a new super-weapon that leaves no radioactive fallout, but is just as devastating as a nuclear bomb.

I think the Yanks should play this up a bit.

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16 Feb 2013, 1:28 pm

ruveyn wrote:

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I was walking through the local schoolyard late at night some years ago and was startled to see a sudden streak of light appear in the dark sky above the trees and houses.

A bright line of light trailing some unseen falling object cut the sky- a narrow line- green on one side, and white on the other.

Just a smooth narrow line of color- like a narrow glowing paint brush stroke.

And then it just vanished.

Strained my eyes to examine the sky and ground beneath the trajectory of the now vanished streak, but saw nothing but black sky and undisturbed landscape. No house getting hit by a meteor- darn!

Described this 'shooting star' I saw to my mom. She just poopooed it as a firework. I honestly dont know.

Thats my one alledged shooting star.

From what your saying it sounds like you saw the real thing twice.

But doesnt sound only go 800 mph (or about 1200 feet a second)?

If the bang was three seconds after the flash then wouldnt the epicenter be only be 3600 feet away(less than one mile, and not three miles)? I know sound travels somewhat faster at higher altitudes but not that fast surely.

Did it have a pale greenish glow?

Meh. Kinda.

Definetly looked green.

But it didnt linger and glow .

But yeah- it was as if an invisible hand with a marking pen made a bright green mark on the night sky with a downward stroke. An then lifted the pen off the page before hitting the horizon- and then the mark itsself vanished.

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16 Feb 2013, 8:09 pm

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Right. I remember seeing one like that back in 1966. I thought is was a plane blowing up when the meteor just went poof and disappeared.

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17 Feb 2013, 7:13 am

naturalplastic wrote:

But doesn't sound only go 800 mph (or about 1200 feet a second)?

If the bang was three seconds after the flash then wouldnt the epicenter be only be 3600 feet away(less than one mile, and not three miles)? I know sound travels somewhat faster at higher altitudes but not that fast surely.

yes you are absolutely correct. i was very tired last night and i loosely remembered that my sister told me when i was about 5, that to tell how far away lightning was, just count the seconds before you hear the thunder and that is how many miles away it was. i discredited her information shortly afterward, and i am not sure how i was so stupid last night to hastily use her information to suggest how far away the meteorite was. at the time i saw it, i thought it was about 1km away (i was "on deck" mentally at the time). sorry.

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17 Feb 2013, 2:23 pm

ruveyn wrote:

naturalplastic wrote:

Right. I remember seeing one like that back in 1966. I thought is was a plane blowing up when the meteor just went poof and disappeared.

ruveyn

Cool!

Sounds like the same thing. Mustve both been meteors.

To B9: No problem!

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