Massive fireball reported across Midwestern sky

[DukeLeJeune]

Looks awful slow for a meteor, at least compared to the ones I've seen. In that first clip it's onscreen for nine seconds and that's only part of its flight path. Anyone ever seen a meteor that slow?

 

[TallLankyBastyd]

Hey... could we all just keep this on the "down low" please?!?

It really was an accident... one minute I was just having a bit of harmless fun and then all of a sudden one thing led to another and... well... boom.

I've learnt my lesson... even got my eyebrows singed a bit...

Really, I'm sorry... but I can't say "I won't do it again"...

 

[peabody]

The Blob will soon be rampaging the country....

 

[machine gewehr]

Don't be naive,thats a mother ship crashing down.

 

[Jonyak]

Looks awful slow for a meteor, at least compared to the ones I've seen. In that first clip it's onscreen for nine seconds and that's only part of its flight path. Anyone ever seen a meteor that slow?

I saw something almost exactly like this a few years ago.

it scred the crap outta me. never found out what it was.

 

[DrSmaggs]

Never saw anything that slow, but you have to wonder exactly how high it really is. Stuff that enters from space gets slowed down drastically.

 

[baba]

Don't be naive,thats a mother ship crashing down.

Yah baby, comin' to you in 3D!

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[Smurf-o-Deth]

Must've been Bootsy on his commute to teach at Funk U!

 

[Gopherbassist]

Where's the pics of the impact site? I couldn't find any. That thing was very large and very low. If it hit the ground there was still a lot of it unburned and would have it left a mark of some sort. Links to pics of the impact anyone?

You don't know how large it was, and it doesn't look that low to me. It was very bright, certainly, but there are many things that could being going on that would make it bright. It burned up, the end.

 

[aborgman]

Looks awful slow for a meteor, at least compared to the ones I've seen. In that first clip it's onscreen for nine seconds and that's only part of its flight path. Anyone ever seen a meteor that slow?

Ever checked out the footage from the asteroid 2008 TC3 strike over Sudan? Pretty similar looking if you ask me as far as speed.

 

[lunarpollen]

I've only ever seen one meteor that hit the ground... I didn't actually see the impact, just the meteor... It was the early 1990's, I was visiting a friend up in Plattsburgh NY... He was the bassist in a band up there, and they were booked to play at some roadhouse in the middle of nowhere. I think it was twilight when we were outside the venue and this huge green fireball just sailed down through the sky and disappeared behind the mountains. We were like HOLY ****!!! Then last year he sent me an online article about how fragments of that very meteor had been found in Canada or something.

 

[wabbit]

We're f***ed!!

 

[john turner]

Where's the pics of the impact site? I couldn't find any. That thing was very large and very low. If it hit the ground there was still a lot of it unburned and would have it left a mark of some sort. Links to pics of the impact anyone?

most NEO's that decide to visit us, even the ones directly aiming for the planet, burn up or explode while still in the atmosphere.

like someone mentioned, this looks a lot like the sudan strike a few years ago.

very cool, wish i saw it.

 

[Hollow Man]

Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded ********....

 

[MatticusMania]

Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded ********....

I believe I already mentioned in the 'ANOTHER earthquake' thread that California is seceding. Shall we begin compiling data?

"The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any ******* time. Any ******* day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay."

 

[nic salsus]

You don't know how large it was, and it doesn't look that low to me. It was very bright, certainly, but there are many things that could being going on that would make it bright. It burned up, the end.

You don't know that it burned up any more than I know it didn't so it's NOT "the end". And it started high but at the end of both pieces of footage I saw it without a doubt was dropping rapidly and was low enough to appear to be below the cloud cover it came in above.

As for the theory it "burned up" you ever see a typical meteor and how it lights up coming through the atmosphere and then winks out? The point they wink out is when they've burned up. You see that happen here? I didn't and at the point the footage ends the object was A LOT lower than any meteor I've ever seen, a lot larger and still burning.

 

[dazgreen]

As for the theory it "burned up" you ever see a typical meteor and how it lights up coming through the atmosphere and then winks out? The point they wink out is when they've burned up. You see that happen here? I didn't and at the point the footage ends the object was A LOT lower than any meteor I've ever seen, a lot larger and still burning.

Thats what i thought. I have seen a meteor hit the atmosphere at maybe 2pm one night. The entire view as far as the eye could see was a bright as mid day for a spilt second. Even brighter than a Lightning flash. Then back to darkness. This didnt look anything like that. At the very least it must have been extremely low in the atmosphere, which begs the question, how on earth did it get that low and slow down so much without being visible for a lot longer??

If any brainy type can explain it i'd love to know how and why?

 

[john turner]

not all meteors hit the atmosphere the same way, nor are they made of similar enough materials to all be expected to act the same way once they do.

 

[aborgman]

As for the theory it "burned up" you ever see a typical meteor and how it lights up coming through the atmosphere and then winks out?

I've seen meteors that "wink out" and I've seen ones that explode.

Like I said - the footage I've seen of this in terms of trajectory and speed looks just like the TC3 2008 asteroid strike over the Sudan.

 

[Gopherbassist]

You don't know that it burned up any more than I know it didn't so it's NOT "the end". And it started high but at the end of both pieces of footage I saw it without a doubt was dropping rapidly and was low enough to appear to be below the cloud cover it came in above.

As for the theory it "burned up" you ever see a typical meteor and how it lights up coming through the atmosphere and then winks out? The point they wink out is when they've burned up. You see that happen here? I didn't and at the point the footage ends the object was A LOT lower than any meteor I've ever seen, a lot larger and still burning.

You're not taking into consideration that we don't really know what angle we're looking at it from. The most we know is where the camera is pointed, but the sky isn't flat.

We also don't know how big it is. We know how large the glow is, but, as I said, there are lots of things that could create a huge, bright glowing area. That thing could be the size of a tire but have chemical reactions going on between things inside of it, and between those things, the byproducts of their reactions and the atmosphere, and just heat from friction creates light.

The article also says that it broke up into several pieces. More surface area = faster disintegration. It burned up.