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ChuckSlusarczyk wrote:
Speaking of watching the sky's .Did anyone see anything last Saturday that looked like a piece of space debris burning up? About 10:30 PM last Saturday in sourthern Ohio about 6 of us saw something streaking across the sky from NW to SE or there abouts .It was about 25 -30 degrees off the horizon and was visible thru an arc of about 40 degrees horizontally and lasting about 7-8 seconds before it went out of sight behind some trees. It was a burnt orange color and seemed to spewing sparks of the same color .Kinda like grinding a piece of steel on a grind stone.A small piece seperated from the main portion and only lasted a couple of seconds. I've seen tons of meteorites of various colors but I can't believe that this was one. It seemed too slow ,everyone remarked that it seemed about the same speed as the Shuttle break up. Just wondering if there's a place that lists times of space debris coming out of orbit,I'm really curious about what it might have been. Probably a bolide (sp?)... basically a large, fiery meteor that breaks up as it enters the atmosphere. Sometimes there's even a sound track to go along (if it's close, that is). Some of them can be pretty spectacular - I've only ever seen a few of 'em, and I spent lots of nights laying on my back counting meteors (I must have had free time when I was a kid). AND no I wasn't drinking any Muzzleloader!!!! :-0 You'll see all KINDS of amazing things if you drink that stuff. Mark Hickey |
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