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**Leotard** lop guest User ID: 76478 04-23-2012 07:26 PM

that fire ball can eat my shorts

**birdie**

Interesting to note that ABC Nightly News covered the story tonight, and the scientist interviewed said it was an ASTEROID and NOT part of the meteor shower.

Hmmmm....

doomed

**birdie** · (This post was last modified: 04-24-2012 06:21 AM by birdie.)

Video here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/lyrid-m...d=16189652

**birdie** · (This post was last modified: 04-26-2012 04:24 AM by birdie.)

birdie Wrote:

http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?r...018&page=1

Quote:Erin Girard-Hudson of Arnold, Calif., told The Union Democrat of Sonora, Calif., that the loud boom that occurred around 8 a.m. made her 2-year-old daughter, Elsie, cry.

"It knocked me off my feet and was shaking the house," she said. "It sounded like it was next door."

"I have been looking at the sky for 30 years, and I have never witnessed something so amazing and puzzling. It is an event that makes you glad to be alive," said Matthew Neal of San Francisco. "The main body was bright green and the head was bright red and white."

Greg Giroux of June Lake, Calif., located along the eastern Sierra just west of Yosemite National Park, also was impressed.

"This was by far the brightest fireball/shooting star I've ever seen, especially since it was in full sunlight," he said. "After the flash, it broke up into pieces, then I lost sight of it as it went behind a mountain."

We didn't see it here in SD this morning since the marine layer was in, but maybe we are too far south.

I also didn't get to see the meteor shower last night because of the marine layer.

This guy wins the idiot award for the dumbest statement ever:

[quote]Dan Ruby, associate director of the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, said it's unlikely the fireball had anything to do with the current peak of the Lyrid meteor shower.

"People are putting two and two together and saying it has something to do with the meteor shower," he said. "But the fireball was probably coincidental and unrelated to the peak of the meteor shower."

**birdie**

*UPDATE*

Pieces apparently have been found!!

http://start.toshiba.com/news/read.php?r...3E&ps=1018

Quote:RENO, Nev. (AP) — Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said Wednesday.

The rocks each weighed about 10 grams, or the weight of two nickels, said John T. Wasson, a longtime professor and expert in meteorites at UCLA's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.