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Meteor Spotted Yesterday Over Midwestern United States
the1337g33k writes "The National Weather Service is reporting that a fireball that many people witnessed last night is a meteor that entered the atmosphere last night around 10:10 pm Central Time. This meteor was spotted by many in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois."
It wasn't an Autobot.
this was just GameStation coming to claim their recently acquired souls..
...Thousands of people caught at awkward moments now traumatized for life.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Just a hint to any slashdotters in that area, a few of my friends a couple years back watched a small meteor impact up near Sonora Pass in California. It was close by so they took a weekend and went camping up on the pass. They wandered about relatively aimlessly looking for any rocks that seemed odd or out of place. When they found a suspect, they used some magnets they had brought to see if it was ferrous. Eventually, they found one small chunk of rock (think size of your hand) that the magnet stuck to out of sheer luck. They brought it back, had it evaluated by someone (can't recall who, but someone at a nearby university), and ended up selling it for just over $1000 since it was, legitimately, a small chunk of the meteor. If any dotters have a taste for adventure and have a weekend to kill near the area that this impacted, you should go out and see what you can find. It might pay off.
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The CNN article states that the fireball was visible for about 15 minutes. That seems awfully long for a meteor.
...whose first thought was Superman? (Kal-El, Clark Kent, etc) You've got method of transportation, same approximate time, and same approximate location...
Fox11 News in Milwaukee has a dramatic video of the meteor taken looking slightly north of west in downtown Milwaukee, WI.
Any idea where it actually landed? DID it actually land -- or just burn up in the atmosphere?
"That's no fireball!"
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
"This isn't a meteor, it's what we call a 'Boeing Bomb'. You see this peanut?"
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One day we'll be able to predict events like this. You'll see something in the sky, go to a website, or pull up an app on your smart phone, and it'll have a designation based on when it was first detected and the flight path that object took to hit the atmosphere. Maybe the website will look something like this, but hopefully not ;) Tracking small rocks like this might seem like a waste of time, until we predict one that is going to hit a major populated area - lives could be saved. This would be a side-benefit of the real purpose of the program - detecting planet killer sized hazards and preparing for the day when we need to divert one. The economic benefits of capturing asteroids in orbit and utilizing the materials should also be considerable.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I was on my way home last night very late, around 11pm and saw a meter streak about 1/4 the way across the sky. Normally I see them flash a white streak across the sky and burn up quickly, but this one stayed non-white burning stage for a long time and rather slow across the sky. I lost sight of it near the horizon and wonder if that one hit the ground. My location was south central west Indiana and looking east.
None of the video I've seen comes close to the spectacular sight. There was a huge tail of plasma and it was green, orange white with a hint of blue. It was huge and looked like it was close by.
That's no moon.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I would bet that pieces will be found of the meteor. FIrst, the orbit / path will be well known, with so many multiple videos of it from different locations.
Second, astronomer Mark Hammergren, of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, predicts that it may have weighed as much as 1000 pounds.
"One of the misconceptions about bright meteors is that they're due to very tiny objects," said Hammergren. But "if something is bright enough to light up the sky like daytime and cause sonic booms throughout the entire area, it's big. It was major," he said. "If it was daytime, people would have undoubtedly seen smoke trails."
I think that this is very sound reasoning. Happy hunting to rockhounds in Wisconsin !
Now, why do we never get such multiple confirmations of UFOs ?
I hear their giant red-headed wives are hot, and can really throw a spitball.
I hope Jesus Christ throws another one and hits target this time.
Please Help. My wife and I live in that area. Last night we were out past our usual time and we found a young boy. He was wandering out in the cold all by himself.
We've talked to the appropriate authorities, but we know we need to get the word out as much as possible. The doctors say he's fine, but he hasn't spoken a word yet.
Please take a look at his picture and call your local authorities if you have any information at all. We are desperate to find out who he is.
If nobody can legitimately claim him, we would be so blessed if we could adopt him. For now, Martha and I have taken to calling him Clark. Thanks.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
As a Californian, all the Midwest looks alike to me. Is there a Smallville anywhere near the meteor's GZ?
This doesn't make sense for a "meteor". The atmosphere is less than 200 miles thick, and the chance that a meteorite will skim across that relatively thin layer of atmosphere long enough to be sited along a 700-mile path over multiple states is infinitesimal. Multiply that by the tiny fractional probability that it would have enough mass to burn that long and the odds look impossible.
More likely, this was a massive satellite in near earth orbit. That's really the only reasonable thing which would match the observations.
So, since it's not being reported as a satellite it's probably a secret satellite. We already know that NASA launches classified payloads. It's safe to assume that other countries do too. Stealth technology would be simple, just build it with flat metal sides painted black and power it with a self-contained reactor (and there's your mass).
Oh give me a home
Where the buffalo roam
And the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard
A discouraging word
And the skies are not raining fireballs
I thought there were at least a couple groups scanning the skies looking for the next armageddon-variety meteor headed our way? Wouldn't we expect to have seen a big thing like this coming? Granted, probably not enough to be a biosphere-killer, but still would make a mess of a city if it hit, or of possibly several if it hit water and did the tsunami thing.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
The orbit of this will be found very quickly - probably within 24 hours. That will rule in or out whether it was in Earth orbit.
Note that
- there are orbits for all satellites bigger than a few kilograms, secret or no. It's hard to hide up there and
- there have been number of multi-state meteors in the past. This, if a meteor, would not be very unusual.
Something remotely interesting happened in the Midwest? That might be a first... Too bad I was stuck studying for APs...
that is the tune they are singing. ok, so it was a meteor that somehow, was able to lit up an entire horizon, but it didnt land anywhere, or caused any damage. and chanced up right over the city. ok. then what the fuck is this in seattle :
http://s959.photobucket.com/albums/ae77/seattleslew2010/20100415_0715P/
the video below was shot 30 minutes before 2008 Sichuan quake in china :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKMTSDzU1Z4&feature=player_embedded#!
sky changing colors before quake in chile :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQsDNcm6714&feature=player_embedded
the first images that have been captured today around seattle may be 'sun pillars' a phenomenon that appears right before a major seismic event.
such various colorful displays are not rare before seismic events. therefore, govt. may be bullshitting you to sleep.
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A meteor is the trail of light generated when a meteoroid enters the atmosphere.
A meteor can't enter the atmosphere, as it can't exist until it the meteoroid enters the atmosphere.
A meteorite is a meteoroid that has impacts the ground.
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Seriously, is this something NASA knows about?
If not, why not?
They should be able to give us a heads up about anything that enters our atmosphere from space so it can be tracked/viewed/enjoyed etc.
I'm sure the science on the shuttles are valuable, but what about stuff that's flying at our planet, and I don't just mean the belt of pollution in earth's orbit consisting of dangerous (to the space station/satellites etc) space trash.
Or is this stuff too fast/small/frequent/random to track?
... lighting up the sky ... Tunguska event, like . . . see tmz.com for details . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
http://www.share-international.org/background/miracles/mi_circles.htm
Or at least maybe the space brothers?
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NewAge/Creme_Maitreya.htm
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
They just interrupted the Mercury Theater radio program with further news about the sighting.
Have gnu, will travel.
Blame Kane and build more harvesters.
I live in Madison. My wife and I saw flashes of light out the window and figured it was distant lightning. Seeing the video now is cool. I definitely saw those bold flashes of light. I wish I'd known what it was, I would have gone for a better look.
"It was somewhat alarming to me," Thompson said. "I've seen shooting stars, but I've never seen something jetting across the sky with flames shooting off it."
The atmosphere is less than 200 miles thick, and the chance that a meteorite will skim across that relatively thin layer of atmosphere long enough to be sited along a 700-mile path over multiple states is infinitesimal.
One might say that the odds were...astronomical.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
I was really drunk when I saw this last night. I thought it was someone on campus shooting off a firework, but everyone else thought it was a meteor. I did not believe anyone until I saw it here.
Man, this news article is completely irrelevant to my interests. Why doesn't slashdot cover something more interesting, like the Sburb beta release? It should have been sent out a couple of days ago, and there has to be somebody who's got it working by this point.
"Raw Video: Dash Cam Catches Meteor's Fall"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m4ZIO8t0dI)
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Hmm, sighted over California? It must be the second coming of Xenu.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
This doesn't make sense for a "meteor". The atmosphere is less than 200 miles thick, and the chance that a meteorite will skim across that relatively thin layer of atmosphere long enough to be sited along a 700-mile path over multiple states is infinitesimal....
Um, no, it's not.
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I am intrigued by your secret satellite theory. Please reply with a physical address where you can be located so we can discuss this further. Feel free to bring along any like-minded individuals you may know to the aforementioned discreet and preferably unpopulated location.
In the meantime, perhaps you could recall your original post; wouldn't want any secret government types to see it and hunt you down like a wolf on a whitetailfuckingdeeryousonofbitchwhenIseeyou....er see you soon fellow believer.
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The path doesn't have to be 700 miles long to be visible over 700 miles of ground. An apparently stationary object 200 miles up will only be overhead of a single point on the ground, but will be 45 degrees or higher above the horizon for about 700 miles in every direction. This thing could've exploded in place and been visible over as long a track.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
That it was more likely some guys, who after a night of beer and brats, was sitting around trying to light farts...
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they let the volcano on iceland erupt a massive ashes cloud over euorope to stop any human air traffic. then they entered the atmosphere to perform some "stuff" above europe.
alien invasion inc.
They shot down a nuclear cruise missle. I saw it live on my tv yesterday on this show called '24'.
im not stupid, but extensive skepticism is. ill show you :
prove me it was a meteor. it might have been a rare atmospheric phenomenon or swamp gas.
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I wonder if it could be a piece of debris from the asteroid that made a close pass to Earth about a week ago, in a spiral orbit since then. Just because it made a big light show doesn't mean the material was huge. The piece of debris could have started out the size of a softball, and (if it made it to the ground at all) could have been smaller than the size of a pea upon impact.
This wasn't a meteor. It must have been a satellite. Meteors/meteorites move VERY fast and explode quickly. There are no extra-terrestrial objects that would match the velocity of the earth to within a few hundred mph (and not get accelerated to beyond that by gravity). That thing had to have been man-made.
I was on my way back to Chicago Midway on a Southwest flight when I saw this outside my window seat. We were traveling east and it was several miles to our north, but impressive nonetheless. From my perspective, it was looked a lot like pictures you always see of comets. For the few seconds I was able to see it, it was burning white hot and got more intense just before it broke up into 3 pieces and quickly disappeared from site.
I'm not sure what it was, but it made for a fantastic show!
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That belongs in a museum!
It was our god Apollo and his sister Artemis fighting again. He decided to streak across the night sky naked in his sun chariot, now Artemis will have to show the moon during the daylight time. These crazy kids do this all the time. I think Zeus will get pissed at this and we will get thunderstorms later today. (Look up Indiana weather for today - Thunderstorms !!).
"That's really the only reasonable thing which would match the observations."
The only thing the public knows about...
...and the star was a diamond, and the diamond was a white point star.
And now some insane Time Lords are gonna mess up the earth. I knew I was going to have a bad friday.
Clearly a weather balloon.
Might want check Wright-Patterson for a new shipment of "little people" though.
Pay no attention to than man behind the curtain.
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A couple of decades ago while travelling I saw a spectaculat shooting star. It was bright green and flashing erratically, and looked like it was going up instead of down.
The next day the news reported that the Russians had jettisoned part of the MIR space station, which was apparently what the shooting star was. Must have been a lot of copper in it for it to be bright green like that.
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more links. these sightings are pacing up. this is exactly why, u.s., previously very secretive and heavy handed in these matters, is easing up the blockade of information on these subjects. cnn has covered a panel that was comprised of former high level govt officials talking about ufo interactions for the first time, and noted that 'this is no panel of kooks - serious business'. and hawking came out, leave aside denying ufo interaction possibility, tried to scare people off contact. expect to see much more on these, since ufos are also becoming more liberal with exposing themselves :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvFTpAIwAWs
above is long beach, ca police FLIR (forward looking infrared) recording a ufo which was being chased by a police chopper at the time. later police dept reported that the object seemed under intelligent control and chase lasted a few minutes. this is a recent case.
http://blip.tv/file/3522986
above is a much more liberal occurrence. a shot in length, made in geelong australia recently.
if you want more, keep following http://www.ufo-blogger.com/ . Its the most solid source on footages. They send all footate to numerous experts around the world to check for validity. you will find which of the videos were deemed real, which were deemed fake in the postings of the videos themselves.
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