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11-21-2008, 06:00 AM | #1 |
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Meteors in Canada tonight - Nov20
Ball of white light with green around it, says one witness.
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11-21-2008, 09:13 PM | #2 |
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Re: Meteors in Canada tonight - Nov20
Those were just my birthday candles...
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11-22-2008, 03:43 AM | #3 |
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Re: Meteors in Canada tonight - Nov20
I SAW A METEORITE THIS WEEK. I live in Northern California, about 2 hours north of San Francisco. I had just got off work sometime after 5:15 p.m. , I left the building in the dark, and had to walk up the street to my car, and looked north, and saw this very large fireball. Where I was at, it was going from the east to the west, or in a westerly direction. Clear skies. What I saw, burned ‘out’ before it appeared to hit anything. It went quite a distance across the sky.
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11-22-2008, 04:29 AM | #4 |
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Re: Meteors in Canada tonight - Nov20
I watched the video a few times. No, I didn't see green light around the meteorite in the footage, but local news showed a green kind of 'landing' emission. I don't know if that was just the footage (night shoot) or the old TV I watched it on.
Anyway, here's a pic. It was dark and witnesses say it literally turned the night to day for a moment. You can see the blue sky and, um, a contrail too. I had a dream a while back about this event, so I paid attention. There's a little piece broken off, it seems. For the video clips: http://canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net/m...Object=3211530 |
11-22-2008, 05:57 AM | #5 |
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11-22-2008, 06:14 AM | #6 |
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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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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. Last edited by KathyT; 11-22-2008 at 08:10 PM. |
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11-23-2008, 08:42 AM | #8 |
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I read in the paper today that it likely broke on entry. A local meteorite expert is looking for pieces just southwest of Manitou Lake, SK (based on 'triangulation' by 400 eye witnesses). "This is literally a billion watt bulb in the sky," he said. He estimated it to be between one and ten tons. The sound was a sonic boom, which occurs at a certain altitude at entry (which I forget now & it depends on trajectory, I think).
He hopes to find pieces before it snows. These are the news reports from these parts today anyway. |
12-23-2008, 02:47 AM | #9 |
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Re: Meteors in Canada tonight - Nov20
Here's an update -
The asteroid/meteorite was found south of the city of Lloydminister, near buzzard coulee and Battle River. It may be a that-we-know-of record for a Canadian metereorite. They figure it weighed 10 tonnes/11 tons. (Fragments now.) http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Meteo...586/story.html http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/Loc...=abc&date=True |
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