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Hundreds Spot Fireballs In Colorado, Nearby States
pingpong writes "Hundreds of people in Colorado and 7 surrounding states have reported seeing "fireballs" in the night sky. They are described as being 10 to 15 times larger than a normal shooting star and bluish in color. Two people even claimed to see one land, but it has yet to be found. The Daily Camera is reporting it online here."
Field reports invited.
Over at the Denver Post
If you're like me, you *want* to see some pictures.
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireballs.html
Quite a bit of extra information is on this site as well.
To make a pun demonstrates the highest understanding of a language
Cu by itself burns blue/green, but CuCl2 is used to make the blue color seen in fireworks. Other copper compounds would work, too, but copper(II) chloride is the most common.
Actually there is a term called the 'radiant' when discussing meteor showers - all the meteors in a particular stream will appear to come from the same patch of sky, radiating outwards.
It's similar to bugs heading towards your windscreen - they all appear to originate from one point (ahead on the highway) but as they get closer they radiate out and hit different parts of the windscreen from your perspective.
I presume that at this time the radiant was close to 90 degrees overhead - then they would appear to be heading in different directions.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
with an almost horizontal trajectory that can happen, the object would be streaking through the medium layers of the atmosphere, all the while evaporating its layers until it expires in a puff or blows up because of too much heat. There's no sound because the explosion could happen quite far away in what is a relatively thin medium so there isn't much sound. I've seen one explode too and waited for what in my mind would be a big booming sound, but nothing came.
Of those to whom much is given, much is required.
A quick Google for electric pickle turns up some pictures and even movies here.
Along the same lines as the eletric pickle (but totally irrelevant to the rest of the topic), there's always the sparking grape trick.
-l