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Night light
jbm wrote in message ...
I was out with the dog just now on the local playing field. Clear sky, bright almost full moon lighting up the field quite nicely. In addition, there is a high intensity street light just off the field that brightens up half the field even more. That sets the scenario. Just before 10:45, the field suddenly brightened up quite appreciably. Looking towards WNW, something VERY big and VERY bright fell to earth. I know what planes look like at night, and I know what meteors look like passing through the upper atmosphere, and this most certainly wasn't either of those. I would estimate its diameter as about 10% of the moon's, big to say the least. The light intensity was almost blinding, bright white, was up there for about 5 seconds, and then abruptly died out about 10-15 degrees above the horizon. The field was as bright as during a heavily overcast afternoon. Though I couldn't detect any fiery tail, it reminded me very much of the meteorite that fell in Russia recently. If any one finds out what it was, please let me know. jim, Northampton Did you feel any radiant heat on your face? That helped them track down where the pieces of the one breaking up over Russia were, the witnesses nearest the distributed landing site felt heat on their faces. |
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