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(meteorobs) Meteors going up
With discussions on meteors going in curves or sideways, wanted to ask
if anyone has seen a meteor going up from below the horizon. Reason I
ask is that when we were observing last March from the roofdeck of an
observatory, we were looking east and caught a streak of bright yellow
light (est. mag -2) shooting up from the horizon. This really caught
us off-guard, and as this was around 3 a.m., we could not attribute it
to anything man-made, like fireworks or rockets. We suspect it was
a particularly bright meteor that had a radiant just below the horizon.
Jun
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