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(meteorobs) You should 'a' been here a few minutes ago...
Hi Everyone,
This morning, about 10:00 UT, I saw a bright "cloud" in a familiar
fireball-created sinuous shape low in the NE sky. When I first saw it I
thought it was the far-below-horizon sun refracting light through the top of
a distant thundercloud's ice crystals. But then I realized that the light
should have been a lot redder if the cloud was cumulonimbus, due to the
angle the cloudtop would have with the sun. Nooo.., this "cloud" was too
high, that's why it was so solar colored.
This mornings news confirmed my belief that I had missed a beauty of a
fireball. There had been a report of a meteor around 9:30 UT. Too bad I
hadn't been out a half hour earlier...Did any one in the Mid-Atlantic,
Tidewater Virginia, NY City area see anything?
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