[meteorite-list] Green Glow Over North Carolina Could Have Been Meteor Sh...
From: GeoZay_at_aol.com <GeoZay_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:34 2004 Message-ID: <12a.3369277c.2cc83ab1_at_aol.com> -------------------------------1066852529 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>And Tammy Denning, who lives about 10 minutes south of Creedmoor, off Redwood Road, said she saw what she believed was a UFO the previous night, Sunday, while smoking outside her home.<< I wonder what she was smoking? :o) >>"Unfortunately, I missed it myself," UNC's Carney said. He added that the object probably was a relatively large meteor from the Orionids. Faye Daniels said she was driving near Falls Lake around 8:45 p.m. Monday when the object caught her attention.<< The Orionid radiant rises near 11pm....If it was seen near 8:45 pm...it stands a better chance being a flying saucer than an orionid. :o) >>"People can go out some clear night this week around midnight and probably see 20 to 30 meteors per hour at its peak," the astronomer said. "The nucleus of a comet is often described as a dirty iceberg. That green glow people have described might have been metals producing a variety of colors as they're burning -- copper, nickel, iron, maybe."<< Or more than likely colors given off from atoms in the atmosphere such as nitrogen and oxygen as they get excited from the passing meteoroid. George Zay -------------------------------1066852529 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3Dutf-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><BR><FONT face=3DArial><BR><BR>>>And Tammy Denning, who liv= es about 10 minutes south of Creedmoor, off<BR>Redwood Road, said she saw wh= at she believed was a UFO the previous night,<BR>Sunday, while smoking outsi= de her home.<<</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>I wonder what she was smoking? :o)</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue=20= 2px solid"><FONT face=3DArial>>>"Unfortunately, I missed it myself," U= NC's Carney said. He added that the<BR>object probably was a relatively larg= e meteor from the Orionids.</FONT><BR><FONT face=3DArial>Faye Daniels said s= he was driving near Falls Lake around 8:45 p.m. Monday<BR>when the object ca= ught her attention.<<<BR><BR></FONT>The Orionid radiant rises near 11p= m....If it was seen near 8:45 pm...it stands a better chance being a flying=20= saucer than an orionid. :o) </BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=3DArial> <DIV><BR>>>"People can go out some clear night this week around midnig= ht and probably<BR>see 20 to 30 meteors per hour at its peak," the astronome= r said. "The<BR>nucleus of a comet is often described as a dirty iceberg. Th= at green glow<BR>people have described might have been metals producing a va= riety of colors<BR>as they're burning -- copper, nickel, iron, maybe."<&l= t;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Or more than likely colors given off from atoms in the atmosphere such=20= as nitrogen and oxygen as they get excited from the passing meteoroid. </DIV= > <DIV>George Zay</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1066852529-- Received on Wed 22 Oct 2003 03:55:29 PM PDT |
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