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Object Lights Night Sky Across Canadian Prairies
clarkn0va writes "Witnesses as far as 720 kilometers apart reported seeing what looked like a bright meteor falling somewhere on the Saskatchewan-Alberta boundary around 5:30 pm MT Thursday, according to the CBC. Here's video of the incident as seen from Edmonton."
the aurora borealis shows its true face. the "northern lights" have lulled the canuckians into a false sense of security and now they are ready to attack.
lose != loose
If it reaches the ground, it's called a meteorite.
Meteor my ass. More cover-up about the fucking space bugs now running our world. Christ, as if GWB wassn't proof enough.
that what's-her-name dropped from the ISS.
With many reports coming in about what direction the object was seen in, can't one simply disregard any wild guesses as to how close it was, and just draw vectors based on the directions of the observers? With this many observers, one should quickly be able to pinpoint the flash, and where to look for meteorites.
Filmed about 5:30pm Thursday November 20th 2008
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This happened 2 days ago and it's just now making it on
The world could have ended and we'd have to wait 2 days before it makes it on here.
When I first saw video of this on the local news, I had a hard time figuring out how I missed the entire sky being lit up like that. Then I realized that, as a slashdotter, I was naturally indoors at that time in the afternoon. The basement habitat is not conductive to observing astronomical events.... I think I will have to put a webcam on the roof.
...a weather balloon.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
Matt, there was a forecast meteor shower that peaked on Tuesday morning. At about 5:40 AM Tuesday morning I saw a bright meteor over Oakland airport from the central parking lot. At about 6:45 PM Wednesday I saw another looking South in Las Vegas.
Bruce Perens.
I've seen a lot of "shooting stars" in my time, but they don't compare at all to seeing a meteor fireball like this.
I managed to see two in a one month period back in 2001, when leaving the office at 330-430 at night. (London, Ontario, August 20th for the first one)
One was silent, but the other one roared like a jet shortly after it passed. I assumed that the second one was smaller but appeared the same size because it was much closer, hence the sound.
Moments like that make me wish we had the ability to capture our memories digitally for playback.
With many reports coming in about what direction the object was seen in, can't one simply disregard any wild guesses as to how close it was, and just draw vectors based on the directions of the observers? With this many observers, one should quickly be able to pinpoint the flash, and where to look for meteorites.
Ok, I'll start. It was traveling left to right and appeared to land, oh maybe, 100-150km away a little (10-20 degrees) to my right.
With a few more reports like this we should be able to pinpoint the impact to within a few meters.
;-)
I think it was somebody's tool bag burning up on re-entry.
Oh no, not again.
Too bad they caught fire on atmospheric entry. But yeah.
I, for one, welcome our new burnt-to-a-crisp-exploded-on-impact-mutant-space-arachnid-overlords.
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