PkrBum wrote:Very cool... I hope it survives.
Me too. they say if this one survives it will be the largest weve seen.
also.... a comet exploded over Alabama last night.
Scientists calculated the meteor's orbit and determined that it came from an unknown comet. It exploded so low in Earth's atmosphere that it triggered a sonic boom.
The meteor was too bright to be picked up by NASA's All-sky Fireball Network, which tracks meteors brighter than Venus with 12 cameras in the eastern United States and New Mexico but whose parameters are set to screen out things like lightning.
The network did detect nearly two dozen other meteors on Monday night, including five that are part of the little-known annual Epsilon Perseids meteor shower, which peaks in early- to mid-September.
Sky watchers also are on the lookout for Comet ISON, which is due to pass by Mars this month and by Earth in November.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/baseball-sized-meteor-blows-over-alabama-195847817.html
I actually heard this sonic boom last night. I was wondering what it was.
lots of cool stuff in the sky.