Astro-Porn of the Day: Massive Fireball over the Midwest

[mckitterick]

Last night, a big ol' chunk of (probably) comet streaked across Midwestern skies. Here's a video taken by Howard County, Iowa, Sheriff's dash-cam:

From NOAA: "The fireball was seen across Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Southern Wisconsin. Several reports of a prolonged sonic boom were received from areas north of Highway 20, along with shaking of homes, trees and various other objects including wind chimes. As of late Wednesday evening, it is unknown whether any portion of this meteorite hit the ground."

Chris

Comments

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

Man, this never happens in our neighborhood.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I vote for it happening over Douglas County next time.

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

Where do we cast our ballots? Because seriously.

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

Or maybe not:

random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

May I ask, what does NOOA stand for?

Re: random commenter

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

NOAA is National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. Goverment weather control satellites!

Re: random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

see, that is what I thought he meant. I am very familair with the association, I just didn't know that they did all atmosphere including space...with the oceans, that just seems like a lot for one government organization.

Re: random commenter

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I think they only get concerned with stuff that will interact with the atmosphere. Earth-killing asteroids are probably part of their duty, too ;-)

Re: random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

it just seems like an awful lot for them to take on, seems to me they should split it into two organizations.

Re: random commenter

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

Or do they only get concerned with things that will interfere with warfare exercises?
Let's face it, weather mod started to help the forces along.
:)

Re: random commenter

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Re: random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

Oh ok, NOAA, that is what I thought, though, I didn't know atmospheric meant all of the way in space...they have even more territory to cover than I realized!

Re: random commenter

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I use their forecast pretty often; it's full of data. Here's for my area.

Re: random commenter

[rowanda380.livejournal.com]

Cool. Yeah, I actually worked for them not too long back, a research survey on recreational salt water fishing :0)

[purpledumbass.livejournal.com]

Of course, this is what came to mind when I saw this(some language NSFW):

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oooh! We should go look for the special capsule....

[bizetsy.livejournal.com]

So cool! Thanks for sharing the video!