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A lot of rocks can seem like they’re meteorites, but they’re not, we call these meteor-wrongs. – Maria Valdes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred. – Mike Hankey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet. – Bill Cooke	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The radiant is expected to be a large area of the sky and not a pinpoint. So any slow meteor from this general area of the sky can be expected to be from SW3, you need not look directly overhead as meteors may appear in any portion of the sky. They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky since at these elevations one is looking through a far thicker slice of the atmosphere that when looking straight upwards. – Robert Lunsford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I thought that we would never learn the true nature of this meteor, that it was just blocked somewhere in the government after our many tries, and so actually seeing that letter from the Department of Defense with my eyes was a really incredible moment. – Amir Siraj	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is the first time we have clear evidence of glasses on Earth that were created by the thermal radiation and winds from a fireball exploding just above the surface, to have such a dramatic effect on such a large area, this was a truly massive explosion. Lots of us have seen bolide( bright meteor) fireballs streaking across the sky, but those are tiny blips compared to this. – Pete Schultz	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The way I think about this is, there is a meteor coming at our planet and it has the very real potential of wiping out humanity. – Christiana Figueres	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
We do not yet know for sure the size of meteor. It could be a rock weighing a few hundred kilograms, but we only expect a small part of this body to have reached the ground, our preliminary analysis suggests that it entered Earth's atmosphere at a speed of about 15 km/s( 9.3 miles per second) and it fragmented in a series of bright flashes between 35 and 25 km( 22 and 15.5 miles) above ground. – Steinar Midtskogen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km( about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead. – Steinar Midtskogen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space. – Christopher Onken	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I felt that it was a matter of injustice, it's not as if a meteor dropped on the middle of the park and destroyed the lynx, it's a decision... It was a decision by the banks to contribute to the extinction of the Balkan lynx. – Ana Colovic Lesoska	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If people did see it and it was something like an incoming low-altitude meteor, they can consider themselves lucky. – Robert Massey	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot. – Leif Tapanila	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone. – Longfellow	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London, Personal Credo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A lot of rocks can seem like they’re meteorites, but they’re not, we call these meteor-wrongs.

– Maria Valdes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred.

– Mike Hankey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is going to be an all or nothing event. If the debris from SW3 was traveling more than 220 miles per hour when it separated from the comet, we might see a nice meteor shower. If the debris had slower ejection speeds, then nothing will make it to Earth and there will be no meteors from this comet.

– Bill Cooke

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The radiant is expected to be a large area of the sky and not a pinpoint. So any slow meteor from this general area of the sky can be expected to be from SW3, you need not look directly overhead as meteors may appear in any portion of the sky. They are actually more likely to appear at lower elevations in the sky since at these elevations one is looking through a far thicker slice of the atmosphere that when looking straight upwards.

– Robert Lunsford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I thought that we would never learn the true nature of this meteor, that it was just blocked somewhere in the government after our many tries, and so actually seeing that letter from the Department of Defense with my eyes was a really incredible moment.

– Amir Siraj

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the first time we have clear evidence of glasses on Earth that were created by the thermal radiation and winds from a fireball exploding just above the surface, to have such a dramatic effect on such a large area, this was a truly massive explosion. Lots of us have seen bolide( bright meteor) fireballs streaking across the sky, but those are tiny blips compared to this.

– Pete Schultz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The way I think about this is, there is a meteor coming at our planet and it has the very real potential of wiping out humanity.

– Christiana Figueres

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

We do not yet know for sure the size of meteor. It could be a rock weighing a few hundred kilograms, but we only expect a small part of this body to have reached the ground, our preliminary analysis suggests that it entered Earth's atmosphere at a speed of about 15 km/s( 9.3 miles per second) and it fragmented in a series of bright flashes between 35 and 25 km( 22 and 15.5 miles) above ground.

– Steinar Midtskogen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A minute later or more a loud rumbling sound could be heard over a large area, perhaps up to 100 km( about 62 miles) away from where the meteor was seen straight overhead.

– Steinar Midtskogen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon a little object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper, these last images before the asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere were SkyMapper's biggest contribution. They helped to pinpoint both the search area for the meteorite fragments on Earth and the meteor's origin in space.

– Christopher Onken

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I felt that it was a matter of injustice, it's not as if a meteor dropped on the middle of the park and destroyed the lynx, it's a decision... It was a decision by the banks to contribute to the extinction of the Balkan lynx.

– Ana Colovic Lesoska

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If people did see it and it was something like an incoming low-altitude meteor, they can consider themselves lucky.

– Robert Massey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Here's a great example of what happens when a meteor or comet hits a marine environment, and it doesn't really do a whole lot.

– Leif Tapanila

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

– Longfellow

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

– Jack London, Personal Credo

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

– Jack London

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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