The best I ever saw was a huge Earth grazer about 17 years ago. A massive fireball travelled from almost the western horizon and dissapeared over the eastern. It seemed like it must have taken 30-60 seconds to do it. Imagine the Trenton fireball at night and that's what it was like. I've never seen anything like it since.

Cheers,

Jeff


----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Catterton" <[email protected]>
To: "Dave Myers" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!


I saw a really nice one on the way to the recent MAG meeting. I first thought it was for 10 seconds, but more close to the time for me to tell my wife "oh my god, look at that one!" then it went out.
I tried to find out more about it, but had no luck.
That was the biggest and brightest one I think I have ever seen. Kinda nice early in the morning on the way to a meteorite meeting.

Greg Catterton
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--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Dave Myers <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Dave Myers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!
To: "Jeff Grossman" <[email protected]>, "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Meteorite-list" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:33 PM
Hi list,

I have never been lucky enough to see a bolide, or
fire-ball.

But I have in my life seen 3 that were bright green, 2 That
made a loud hissing or swishing noise. But this past
november, I seen a very
Bright white one start directly over head and head south
east, as the bright light burnt out, for a few tenths of a
second, the object just glowed bright red, went dim, and
glowed about half as bright again, no tail.

I would think this object made it through the lowest levels
of the atmosphere. Anyone ever had an encounter like that!

Thanks
Dave





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