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Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by infradig »

nerpderp82 wrote: post #76
andrewstuart wrote: post #68

I saw a meteor once when I was a kid. I was on the beach and it streaked across the sky and exploded into a bunch of other things that streaked a little further and faded out. I never really told anyone because it seem so preposterous that I wasn't really sure I had seen it at all. It was well out over the over the ocean a number of kilometeres and up very high - zero chance it was fireworks and there weren't ny on t…

I saw something similar, the weird thing is my brain hallucinated sound that couldn't have possibly been there. It was on dark winter night during a ferry crossing and the chunks intersected the horizon.

A fizzing crackling sound?

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by TechBro8615 »

mh- wrote: post #3

In case the link won't load for anyone else, there's a YouTube video on the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNdaYqVxR0

That was a pretty wild five seconds. I wish I could have seen it.

Does anyone know the source of the video, or the reason this particular camera is pointed at the sky?

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by cik2e »

13of40 wrote: post #73
cik2e wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So this can't be a meteor then. That's not 11 km/s unless the video has been drastically slowed down.

I'm sure you've seen a plane traveling 400 mph but seemingly hovering in one spot in the sky. It's just not moving perpendicular to your vision.

Not sure what you're getting at but 400 mph is 0.178816 km/s. Off by two orders of magnitude from 11 km/s.

I am sure everyone has seen a shooting star. Planes don't move like shooting starts or whatever is in this vide.

I think it's safe to conclude that this is not a plane nor a meteor.

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by wyclif »

kristopolous wrote: post #53
kibwen wrote: post #18

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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.

That's probably why the Russian one is so well documented. They have a dashcam culture

One of my fave videos is of the Russian guy who keeps driving and pulls his visor down like nothing happened even while a meteor near-misses: https://youtu.be/5bicUPQHcw4

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by wldcordeiro »

killjoywashere wrote: post #88
buck4roo wrote: post #74

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Yes. They are the largest source of extraterrestrial mass. https://www.sciencealert.com/5-200-tons-of-micrometeorites-a...

And one has been caught on film (we think) https://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almo... . There’s also a nice coffee table book about them: https://www.amazon.com/Search-Stardust-Micrometeorites-Terre...

Damn nearly getting cut in half by a meteor while skydiving!

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by nerpderp82 »

infradig wrote: post #91
nerpderp82 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw something similar, the weird thing is my brain hallucinated sound that couldn't have possibly been there. It was on dark winter night during a ferry crossing and the chunks intersected the horizon.

A fizzing crackling sound?

Crossed with a low frequency white noise like howl. I see "with sound" on the meteorite spotter page, but it still seems like it was made up.

Interesting, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932PA.....40..289W#:~:text=....

https://www.science.org/content/article/new-theory-may-expla....

So maybe not.

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by 13of40 »

cik2e wrote: post #93
13of40 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure you've seen a plane traveling 400 mph but seemingly hovering in one spot in the sky. It's just not moving perpendicular to your vision.

Not sure what you're getting at but 400 mph is 0.178816 km/s. Off by two orders of magnitude from 11 km/s. I am sure everyone has seen a shooting star. Planes don't move like shooting starts or whatever is in this vide. I think it's safe to conclude that this is not a plane nor a meteor.

Here's another factor: When something is far away from you, it appears to travel slower. For example, the sun is ~150M kilometers away. As the earth rotates through a day, from our perspective it travels ~942M kilometers, meaning it appears to be traveling at 40 million kph through the sky. However, it's just sitting there in one spot.

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by NovaDudely »

infradig wrote: post #91
nerpderp82 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw something similar, the weird thing is my brain hallucinated sound that couldn't have possibly been there. It was on dark winter night during a ferry crossing and the chunks intersected the horizon.

A fizzing crackling sound?

Back in 2004 I saw a meteor and there was a distinct fizzy crackling sound but it was coming off the cars next to me in the car park.

Looks like it is a known thing - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4201328/Stud...

Re: Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA

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Post by andrewstuart »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #90
andrewstuart wrote: post #68

I saw a meteor once when I was a kid. I was on the beach and it streaked across the sky and exploded into a bunch of other things that streaked a little further and faded out. I never really told anyone because it seem so preposterous that I wasn't really sure I had seen it at all. It was well out over the over the ocean a number of kilometeres and up very high - zero chance it was fireworks and there weren't ny on t…

Do you remember the day, and location? There may be corroborating reports.

It was 40 years ago in Newcastle, Australia at Merewether beach.

I can’t even remember what I did last week.

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