Fire in the sky!

[WhaWhaWha]

So there I was walking my dog at 9:03pm last night. The entire sky is lit up over my street by a giant fireball. Looked like it landed in the park just 1km south. When I get there others saw it even further south. I phone home, and my SO said there are tweeters and twitterers who saw it by the CN Tower, in Hamilton, in Windsor, and in Ohio. This was no ordinary meteor. It shook houses in Cambridge. They heard it crackle in Windsor. I saw distinctive flames flickering and pieces break off the tail in Toronto.

Is the Ozone so depleted that a giant meteor can now get through the atmosphere and light up the Eastern Seaboard?

 

[seth gecko]

OMG!! I just heard that Travis Walton has gone missing again!!!

 

[WhaWhaWha]

I heard he never existed in the first place.

 

[moresex4me]

Dude, seriously? I saw the sky light up in Oakville last night, to the south. Freaked me right out. Has this been confirmed as a meteor? And what does Ozone have to do with meteors? They burn up in the air by friction. Ozone just blocks UV rays.

Edit: Here's a news link: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090926/Meteor_Ont_090927/20090926/?hub=TorontoNewHome

 

[Hangman]

There's some really good science going in in this here thread.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

Dude, seriously? I saw the sky light up in Oakville last night, to the south. Freaked me right out. Has this been confirmed as a meteor? And what does Ozone have to do with meteors? They burn up in the air by friction. Ozone just blocks UV rays.

You're right. What do I know? I'm just grateful the sighting didn't end in an anal probing.

 

[moresex4me]

You're right. What do I know? I'm just grateful the sighting didn't end in an anal probing.

I'm into anal probing of willing females... you're not?

 

[Sammy the Bull]

Thats just a meteor passing through some swamp gas, nothing to see here folks

 

[WhaWhaWha]

You forgot to factor in the weather balloons.

 

[hunter001]

 

[moresex4me]

Hunter, you didn't have to stick those feathers in your ass!

 

[Cycleguy007]

Was the plot written by Al Gore? Just curious...

 

[Sammy the Bull]

You forgot to factor in the weather balloons.

Weather balloons is Plan B in case the public doesnt buy the swamp gas story

 

[pineappleguy]

Is the Ozone so depleted that a giant meteor can now get through the atmosphere and light up the Eastern Seaboard?

The ozone layer - no matter how thick it is - does not prevent meteors from hitting the earth.

 

[rafterman]

Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the surface.

 

[WhaWhaWha]

The ozone layer - no matter how thick it is - does not prevent meteors from hitting the earth.

Yeah we covered that earlier in this somehwat short thread.

 

[great bear]

They are doing a remake of "Plan 9 From Outer Space".

 

[ooh-ya-more]

I saw something like that a couple of years ago. I really thought that a plane had been blown up. No noise just a fireball. And no debris falling either. You need to find where it hit. You could make good money selling pieces of meteors.

 

[Big Sleazy]

I was sitting in my backyard and saw it as well. My whole neighborhood lit up in a florecent green for about a half second and you could hear carckling like something was burning. It was great.

BS

 

[fuji]

The next one's going to be a little bigger. Not only will it light up the sky, it'll ignite the atmosphere.