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Originally Posted by T@T

LOL, this was not full moon light from what i heard, this had light that lite up peoples windows from basement suites. Seems to me it must have been large to be seen from people 600 miles from each other, I have seen a couple of meteors and i can promise you someone 600 miles from me wouldn't have seen the same thing. That's like seeing a westjet 737's landing lights over Vancouver...not possible.

I was just saying that a small one can be very bright, I wasn't saying that this one was that size, just saying that it doesn't take something very big to make something very bright.

100 miles is usually the range to see a meteor, but if it's much brighter then normal more will see it. If it was 100 miles high, then people up to 1000 miles away from it could be able to see it (more and the curve of the earth would get in the way).

Add in it streaking across the sky across multiple provinces, and you get the massive reports that we saw.

You may or may not know this but a meteor is a boulder sized (could almost fit in your hand) particle of debris from space, science says there is ZERO chance that a meteor could light up the sky for 600 miles.

And yet, that's exactly what happened. A meteor is a visible chunk of something falling into the atmosphere, regardless of size. If it hits the ground it is a meteorite.

Do you mean a meteoroid?

An asteroid on the other hand can be as small as a 100 feet and as large as..well a small planet.

True, so yes you are right if an asteroid at the small end of things fell to earth then:

fact is anything smaller than 100 feet burns up to basicly nothing before it hits the visual atmosphere.

Not true, even stuff the size of a grain of sand will be visible on a dark night. Stuff from marble size up can reach the surface and impact.

This is all ignoring composition, an ice ball will burn up much faster than a metal object. And velocity.

See this impact crater:



The meteorite that caused it was 50 meters across.

Now that we got that out of the way

Not quite.

It is very possible it was a small asteroid that bounced off the upper atmosphere and went back to space.

That I agree with, I think we're missing each other on semantics. In space it was either a comet, meteoroid, or asteroid. Meteoroids are sand to boulder sized, asteroids boulder sized and up. This could have been boulder sized.

Again.there is ZERO chance this was a meteor, if it was than we better change the defination of a meteor.

If you can see it its a meteor, that is the definition of a meteor.