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Meteor lights up night sky over eastern United States
Posted on March 23, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
March 23, 2013 – NEW YORK – A
meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night
sky over eastern North America on Friday, providing a spectacle
witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian
provinces, the American Meteor Society said. The society verified more
than 300 witness sightings from Ontario and Quebec down to the southern
U.S. state of North Carolina with more than 100 reports yet to be
reviewed, said Mike Hankey, an observer for the American Meteor Society.
“This was most certainly a fireball seen over a good portion of the
eastern states,” said Robert Lunsford, the society’s fireball
coordinator. “It happened at a good time, around 8 o’clock on a Friday
night, when a lot of people were out to see it,” Lunsford said. The
society describes a fireball as a meteor brighter than Venus and
Lunsford said they can be brighter than the Sun, as was the case with
the one that streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia on
February 15. Meteors are small particles from the solar system that burn
from friction when entering the atmosphere. Several thousand meteors of
fireball magnitude occur each day, most of them unseen over the oceans
or hidden by daylight, the society said on its website. This one was
seen up and down the East Coast and in inland states such as West
Virginia and Ohio, the society said. The fireball’s likely trajectory
showed it moving east from eastern Pennsylvania and across New Jersey,
passing just south of New York City and then over the Atlantic Ocean,
based on witness reports to the society. “I originally thought the
fireball was a low-flying plane,” said one witness from West Chester,
Pennsylvania, whose comments were logged by the society. Many witnesses
called it the brightest meteor they had ever seen. “I’m still in
disbelief,” said another from Boonsboro, Maryland. –Yahoo News
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Posted on March 23, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
meteor bright enough to be classified as a fireball lit up the night
sky over eastern North America on Friday, providing a spectacle
witnessed in at least 13 states, Washington, D.C. and two Canadian
provinces, the American Meteor Society said. The society verified more
than 300 witness sightings from Ontario and Quebec down to the southern
U.S. state of North Carolina with more than 100 reports yet to be
reviewed, said Mike Hankey, an observer for the American Meteor Society.
“This was most certainly a fireball seen over a good portion of the
eastern states,” said Robert Lunsford, the society’s fireball
coordinator. “It happened at a good time, around 8 o’clock on a Friday
night, when a lot of people were out to see it,” Lunsford said. The
society describes a fireball as a meteor brighter than Venus and
Lunsford said they can be brighter than the Sun, as was the case with
the one that streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia on
February 15. Meteors are small particles from the solar system that burn
from friction when entering the atmosphere. Several thousand meteors of
fireball magnitude occur each day, most of them unseen over the oceans
or hidden by daylight, the society said on its website. This one was
seen up and down the East Coast and in inland states such as West
Virginia and Ohio, the society said. The fireball’s likely trajectory
showed it moving east from eastern Pennsylvania and across New Jersey,
passing just south of New York City and then over the Atlantic Ocean,
based on witness reports to the society. “I originally thought the
fireball was a low-flying plane,” said one witness from West Chester,
Pennsylvania, whose comments were logged by the society. Many witnesses
called it the brightest meteor they had ever seen. “I’m still in
disbelief,” said another from Boonsboro, Maryland. –Yahoo News
Thanks to: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
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