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Originally Posted by no caste
It's amazing that you saw it in northern California. I don't know - are loud, rumbling, shaking sounds a normal part of meteorite phenomena? I guess it depends on the size of the object?
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They say meteorites enter the atmosphere at about 400,000 feet... that's compared to our commercial planes which can fly up to 40,000 feet.
It never occurred to me how far away it was when I saw it. It kind of looked like a plane flying across the sky... it never came anywhere close to 'crashing' into earth... it broke up at the very end and burnt up. But it was much brighter than a plane, it was a fireball.