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Yaris Hilton · 12-21-2009, 11:24 AM

Bet you saw a bolide, a big bright meteor passing through the atmosphere.

Something like 35 years ago many people photographed one of those that skimmed through the atmosphere over the northern US & southern Canada, then went back out into space! A near miss by a small asteroid that "grazed" the Earth without actually hitting it.

slothman86 · 12-21-2009, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Yaris Hilton

Bet you saw a bolide, a big bright meteor passing through the atmosphere.

Something like 35 years ago many people photographed one of those that skimmed through the atmosphere over the northern US & southern Canada, then went back out into space! A near miss by a small asteroid that "grazed" the Earth without actually hitting it.

maybe it was something like that but I'd have to say since I'm only 26 that it wasn't that particular one. It was on a straight trajectory tho!

Yaris Hilton · 12-21-2009, 07:13 PM

They happen fairly regularly. Also, when the U.S. put satellites up to monitor for the flashes of atmospheric nuclear tests, they found a lot of false alarms, some of which initially caused diplomatic concerns. Eventually they realized they were seeing large meteors/small stony asteroids exploding in the upper atmosphere with energy levels on the order of A-bombs! These natural airbursts were long kept secret. I saw an article on them in an astronomy magazine in the early '90s, and noted that one had gone off right over Kingsport, Tennessee in the early '70s. I lived in nearby Johnson City and knew nothing of it. Many of those explosions went unnoticed because of cloud cover, people mistaking them for lightning, etc. A far larger similar event flattened a huge forest in Tunguska in 1908.

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12-21-2009, 11:24 AM	#1
Yaris Hilton Half a Bubble Off Plumb Drives: 2009 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA Posts: 1,593	Bet you saw a bolide, a big bright meteor passing through the atmosphere. Something like 35 years ago many people photographed one of those that skimmed through the atmosphere over the northern US & southern Canada, then went back out into space! A near miss by a small asteroid that "grazed" the Earth without actually hitting it.

12-21-2009, 07:13 PM	#3
Yaris Hilton Half a Bubble Off Plumb Drives: 2009 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA Posts: 1,593	They happen fairly regularly. Also, when the U.S. put satellites up to monitor for the flashes of atmospheric nuclear tests, they found a lot of false alarms, some of which initially caused diplomatic concerns. Eventually they realized they were seeing large meteors/small stony asteroids exploding in the upper atmosphere with energy levels on the order of A-bombs! These natural airbursts were long kept secret. I saw an article on them in an astronomy magazine in the early '90s, and noted that one had gone off right over Kingsport, Tennessee in the early '70s. I lived in nearby Johnson City and knew nothing of it. Many of those explosions went unnoticed because of cloud cover, people mistaking them for lightning, etc. A far larger similar event flattened a huge forest in Tunguska in 1908.