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Bizarre Expanding Light Halo Seen By Hawaii Webcam

Posted by timothy on from the only-part-of-the-sky-is-falling dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A webcam mounted at the CFHT observatory in Hawaii caught a strange, expanding halo of light on the night of June 22. Announced on the Starship Asterisk forum, readers quickly honed in on the likely culprit: the terminal charge from the third stage of a Minuteman III missile. Very similar to the Norway Spiral of 2009, and scientific sleuthing at its best!"

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  1. A good summary by bosah · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/29/awesomely-weird-expanding-halo-of-light-seen-from-hawaii/ Another link on said pretty thing that reads better than the forum.