We just supposedly had a Bolide fireball tonight?
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A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -3 or -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky. A bolide is a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation.
Thank you Texan. I was not sure what separated it from a regular metor. My husband a large saw shooting star when he ran to the movie store, and when he got home, we heard on the news that there were a number of calls around 8pm this evening, about one having occured.
I missed it, but I would have liked to see it.
We have to wait for the Military to release the data to the News on what the actual situation was, so it is still unconfirmed, but we seem to be having some metor showers tonight.
I missed it, but I would have liked to see it.
We have to wait for the Military to release the data to the News on what the actual situation was, so it is still unconfirmed, but we seem to be having some metor showers tonight.
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The American Meteor Society has a website that logs and tracks sightings of Bolide Fireballs. There are only around 30 to 40 events each year around the world. Strangely, most of them are over North America. (Maybe it is just better reporting.)
It should also be noted that several Bolide Fireball sightings actually turn out to be missle launches. Aparently, they have a similar appearance.
The American Meteor Society has a website that logs and tracks sightings of Bolide Fireballs. There are only around 30 to 40 events each year around the world. Strangely, most of them are over North America. (Maybe it is just better reporting.)
It should also be noted that several Bolide Fireball sightings actually turn out to be missle launches. Aparently, they have a similar appearance.
I dug it up for others, in case....
http://www.amsmeteors.org/
I will go through here a bit to see what I can find on them.
I don't know about missles around here. I can't say if they would launch them or not. I've never heard of them doing it, but that isn't to say that something didn't happen. Who knows?
I just hope there was no damage. I know that they can manage to create sonic booms, from what the weather man said.
http://www.amsmeteors.org/
I will go through here a bit to see what I can find on them.
I don't know about missles around here. I can't say if they would launch them or not. I've never heard of them doing it, but that isn't to say that something didn't happen. Who knows?
I just hope there was no damage. I know that they can manage to create sonic booms, from what the weather man said.
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meteors (of any type) have to be pretty big to avoid being completely burned away by the atmosphere.
Meteorites (they get a new name when they hit the ground) don't usually do any damage, mainly because most of the Earth's surface is water so they get a splashdown.
Even when they hit something damagable, the reported results vary widely. One man (English, unusually) claims to have been hit on the head by a metorite, which he later recovered from his garden. The rock was a meteorite, so maybe it is true.
I remember a picture of a car that was totalled by another, slightly faster meteorite.
Near the start of the 20th century, Quite a lot of forest was flattened and herds of reindeer cooked by a meteor which didn't even reach the ground. That was near Tunguska and I'm sure you've heard of it.
Any further up the damage scale and we're talking about craters.
Meteorites (they get a new name when they hit the ground) don't usually do any damage, mainly because most of the Earth's surface is water so they get a splashdown.
Even when they hit something damagable, the reported results vary widely. One man (English, unusually) claims to have been hit on the head by a metorite, which he later recovered from his garden. The rock was a meteorite, so maybe it is true.
I remember a picture of a car that was totalled by another, slightly faster meteorite.
Near the start of the 20th century, Quite a lot of forest was flattened and herds of reindeer cooked by a meteor which didn't even reach the ground. That was near Tunguska and I'm sure you've heard of it.
Any further up the damage scale and we're talking about craters.
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