Astro-Porn of the Day: Most amazing meteor fireball EVER.

[mckitterick]

WOW! Just an hour or so ago, on my way home after class and picking up the last of the big donation to the Center, I saw a bright fireball transform over a period of a second or two into a streaming green streak across the sky. AMAZING! It went from bright white to vivid green, as if a lurid painter had broken open a lightbulb and painted phosphorescent pigment across the sky, which glowed for a few seconds afterward. It looked sort of like this, only more dramatic:



What a treat after a massively long day!

Somewhere east of Lawrence, Kansas, a pile of space-debris lay smoking in the dry soil.

Chris

Comments

[ericreynolds.livejournal.com]

I saw something like that a long time ago, over Lawrence, believe it or not, that streaked overhead and broke up into several pieces headed southwest. It was at night and I thought it was an airplane until individual dots started turning off, and it was moving way too fast. Never did hear any more about it.

It's cool just to star gaze and what you can see on any given night. If not too late you can always see satellites and I find if I stare at the sky long enough I always see at least one meteor, even if a faint one.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Cool! Lawrence is a fireball magnet.

I know what you mean. When I lived in a dark locale, I used to love to just lie on my back and watch the sky.