About 5-10 minutes ago I saw a HUGE meteor/meteorite in the sky. It was fast moving but it probably lasted about 4-5secs before it fell out of view behind the next door neighbors house. It was absolutely amazing. It was huge I could see it pulsating a greeny/yellow color as it fragmented and burned up in the atmosphere. It disappeared out of view behind the neighbors house heading in an easterly direction. It literally lit up the sky and it just happened that by chance that I caught it out the corner of my eye while watching the Letterman show. At first I thought it was a plane, but by the time I got to the window I saw that it was an amazing meteor.
I searched google for some pics and it was very similar to this but it was a bit more yellow.
#584629 - 22/01/0911:47 pmRe: Just saw a huge Meteor/Meteorite
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During the Leonids meteor shower in around 1998 or 1999, amongst many other meteors, there was one large fireball (similar to what you described), except it burst, and left green glowing plasma behind for about a minute afterwards !!!!!
Colors of meteors - The color of many Leonids is like the color of our sodium discharge lamps. For the same reason: meteoroids contain traces of sodium. The color of a meteor is an indication of its composition and the excitation temperature: sodium atoms give an orange-yellow light, iron atoms a yellow light, magnesium a blue-green light, calcium atoms may add a violet hue, while silicon atoms and molecules of atmospheric nitrogen give a red light.
[quote=Wizard!]About 5-10 minutes ago I saw a HUGE meteor/meteorite in the sky. quote]
Hey that is cool but am I the only one picking up on this? Bro a meteorite is the name given to a projectile originating in space - i.e. a meteor - which survives an impact with the earth's surface. By definition you cannot see a meteor "in the sky".
[quote=Wizard!]About 5-10 minutes ago I saw a HUGE meteor/meteorite in the sky. quote]
Hey that is cool but am I the only one picking up on this? Bro a meteorite is the name given to a projectile originating in space - i.e. a meteor - which survives an impact with the earth's surface. By definition you cannot see a meteor "in the sky".
Sorry but someone had to pick up on this
And sorry, but you got your meteors and meteorites the wrong way around.
"The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth's (or another body's) atmosphere is called a meteor, or commonly a "shooting star" or "falling star". If a meteoroid reaches the ground, it is then called a meteorite."
