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Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by MiguelHudnandez »

kneebonian wrote: post #5

Maybe those UFOs we shot down weren't just weather balloons from amateur clubs...... Good thing I've been playing a lot of XCOM recently. On a more serious note is it possible this is another "Oh my god" particle event ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle )

I'm not sure if there's any reason to think it's anything more exotic than a meteor.

Beautiful, for sure, but plenty of totally typical phenomena are beautiful.

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Post by RajT88 »

kneebonian wrote: post #5

Maybe those UFOs we shot down weren't just weather balloons from amateur clubs...... Good thing I've been playing a lot of XCOM recently. On a more serious note is it possible this is another "Oh my god" particle event ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle )

I suspect that even at that energy level we'd not be able to see a single particle way high up in the atmosphere.

But I'm no physicist so who knows.

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Post by kibwen »

s-xyz wrote: post #15

Are we having lately many more meteor sightings than "before", or is it just that we have better tools/more cameras to spot it?

People have had ubiquitous cameras in their phones for a decade, but these fireballs happen way too fast to whip out your phone. The reason that we're seeing them more these days is because of the increasing prevalence of dashcams and home security cameras.
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