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Old 07-14-2006, 12:38 AM   #1
Daradon
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Default Anyone else see that? - Fireball in Eastern Sky

Just wondering if anyone else caught this,

I was just out for a walk and on my way home when I saw a streaking fireball across the eastern sky. Glowing the way a meteorite would, kinda greenish, flares of white and orange, but it was super close if it was. You could see bits of it breaking off and making small trails of their own before fizzling out, and flaring up as it would do so.

Wanted to put this out there in case anyone else saw it, I would hate to have been tricked by a firework or something like that, but it's trajectory and arc, along with the more random way it was flaring up and burning seemed to suggest it was not.

It fizzled out before it fell to the horizon, but for an instant you could still make out particulates in the air.

If it was a meteorite, those pebbles (or dust?) are probably around somewhere close.

I was in Chapparal near the main intersection of Lake Chaparral and Chaparral Ridge, looking out eastward.

Anyone else see this?

Oh, it would have been around 11:20 PM (Thursday)

Edit: To fix spelling and add the time.

Last edited by Daradon; 07-14-2006 at 12:46 AM.
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