Fireballs Awe Early November Skywatchers 32
saskboy writes "NASA reports that an unusual number of fireball meteor sightings have been reported recently, possibly due to the larger number of people being outside for Halloween trick or treating, and others looking for the highly visible planet Mars while it's in the planetary neighborhood. From the article: "On Oct. 30, for example, Bill Plaskon of Jonesport, Maine, was 'observing Mars through a 10-inch telescope at 10:04 p.m. EST when a brilliant fireball lit up the sky and left a short corkscrew-like smoke trail that lasted about 1 minute.' The physical cause of the fireballs in the sky are likely the Taurid meteor shower. According to the International Meteor Organization, the Taurid shower peaks between Nov. 5th and Nov. 12th. 'Earth takes a week or two to traverse the swarm. This comparatively long duration means you don't get spectacular outbursts like a Leonid meteor storm,' rather closer to 'one every few hours.'" These meteor sightings have also, of course, sparked UFO speculation.
Saw one a couple of days ago.... (Score:4, Interesting)
UFO's! (Score:2)
Re:UFO's! (Score:1)
Re:In Soviet Russia... don't you mean (Score:2)
It should be...
In Soviet Russia, Fireballs awe YOU! Wait, that happens here too, now I'm confused too!
Don't worry (Score:2)
I saw one of these fireballs just yesterday (Score:2)
Funny. (Score:2)
Holy crap!!! My mom isn't crazy after all!!! (Score:2)
Re:Holy crap!!! My mom isn't crazy after all!!! (Score:2)
Re:Holy crap!!! My mom isn't crazy after all!!! (Score:2)
Yeah. I know that's why she called me.:) She knew it wasn't Mars because it was something in the sky she has never seen before.
Sigh... (Score:2)
Oh, boy. Why don't these people just GROW UP!?!?!?!?! If there were UFOs "out there", at least the sort we could recognize, they would surely have either made themselves known, conquered, or otherwise interactred with us by now. Of course, since the probability of a humanoid ET is extremely small (something like a billion to 1), the probability is likewise that any ETs that exist would interact with us in a manner detectable by our t
I kinda doubt it too. (Score:2)
Re:Sigh... (Score:1)
If you recognize it, it's not an unidentified flying object.
As a skeptic I love when people ask me if I believe in UFOs. I always say "Yes." They look at me funny until I say, "I believe people see flying objects they can't identify. I don't believe these objects are aliens tourists." UFOs exist. They will always exist. Aliens visiting Earth? lol
That explains it.. (Score:2)
Re:That explains it.. (Score:2)
UFO's... (Score:3, Funny)
Hallowed are the Orii
Re:UFO's... (Score:1)
Saw several last Saturday night. (Score:2)
Anyway, I saw a couple myself, one headed south to north that had a huge shedding tail and moved very fast, (I actually mentioned to another observer that it looked almost like another shuttle breaking up, with smaller pieces) and later one in the south skies headed east to west that looked very like
Flat Earth Society (Score:1)
Yeah, so I was drunk (Score:3, Funny)
5 in about 3 hours (Score:1)
between the 5 of us we saw 5-6 of these. none of them were bright enough to be "fireballs" but of one them, which i missed, was bright enough for me to see the area light up from the flash.
this was before we got drunk.
Re:5 in about 3 hours (Score:2)
Re:5 in about 3 hours (Score:1)
bragging about getting drunk...? talk about projecting!
Freudian Projection:
Re:5 in about 3 hours (Score:2)
I was simply pointing out that not everyone is impressed with random peoples' ability to consume too much alcohol and then brag in public how little self control or good sense about alcohol they have.
Nah... (Score:1)
That's no space station.. (Score:1)
Lucky me (Score:2)
Borg Cube (Score:1)