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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 16 January 2018 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | 1
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I saw a flash thru the blinds then heard a series of BOOMS tonight.
Looked outside thinking a transformer had blown, but nothing.
The evening news confirmed a probable meteor.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/bright-light-and-loud-sound-heard- throughout-southeast-michigan (sorry, hyper link function not working for some reason)
Anyone have any close meteor encounters before?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 8:53am | IP Logged | 2
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Anyone have any close meteor encounters before?•• Nothing explosive, but no less than four quite spectacular views since I moved into this house, 12 years ago. One that looked to be the size of a Volkswagen* streaked past my back yard, dropping blazing chunks as it went. ––––––––––––––– * Tho I had no real way to judge scale!
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 9:17am | IP Logged | 3
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The one that passed over last night was estimated at 2 tons, and it looked tiny.
JB, you must be on some kind of natural celestial pathway.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 9:30am | IP Logged | 4
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It's amazing to think that these things fall out of the sky every night, and yet there are so few reports of people actually being hit by them!
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 9:49am | IP Logged | 5
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I don't think meteors exist here in the UK. Like Bigfoot, we just don't get to see such things.
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 10:04am | IP Logged | 6
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Never seen a shooting star, Robbie?
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 11:23am | IP Logged | 7
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I can't recall such an occurrence, no.
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Phil Kreisel
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My son and I saw a meteor fall just after sunset on our way to a hockey practice in Edmonton some years ago. The sky, which was fairly dark at the time, turned bright white for a second or two, then returned to darkness. We just saw the sky light up (not the actual meteor falling).
It was quite freaky, but no explosions or sound of any kind. We later heard that the meteor landed somewhere in Saskatchewan (the next Canadian province over).
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Doug Centers
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This was the first time I've ever got any noise from one. The epicenter was about 40 miles from me and it shook the house pretty good. I wonder how it felt at ground zero?
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David Allen Perrin
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| Posted: 17 January 2018 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | 10
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I witnessed last night's meteor as it flashed over the Detroit area driving on my way home from work.
It looked like a flash of lighting in the clouds....followed by a pretty significant "boom".
I assumed it was thunder and lighting...until I remembered it was about 18 degrees and snowing outside.
Didn't get confirmation of the nature of the event until later that night. First time I've ever seen something like that. Won't soon forget it.
Edited by David Allen Perrin on 17 January 2018 at 2:30pm
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Don Berner
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I was driving the same direction at the same time and got to see virtually the same view as this a few years back-it was pretty significant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw
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John Byrne
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Apparently astronomers have been studying the Moon, looking for meteor impacts, and there are a LOT of them. They show up as brief, bright flashes on the Lunar surface.No reason to assume the same is not happening to the Earth, with the difference being that they burn up in the atmosphere before striking. (The other night I watched KRONOS, a 1950s sci-fi movie. At one point Our Heroes are attempting to blow up an "asteroid" that is threatening Earth. The thing is huge -- and looks more like a flying saucer than a hunk of rock -- but no consideration at all is given to the fact that blowing it up would create a shower of meteors!)
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