Great shooting meteorites, Bodie!

[byslantedlight]

How has no one in my flist posted about this today?!

I heard something on the news this morning as I drove to work, and promptly forgot to look it up further, but it was all jumbled up with tonight's asteroid story so I thought it must just have been some comparison thing (they were talking about Tunguska, and how the asteroid tonight won't hit and so on) - and then I get home to find this! Oh my word!

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[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

I saw it (er - the news, that is, not the thing itself) first thing in the morning, and it just awed me. So awful that so many people were by windows when the shock blast hit, but what a phenomenal thing. Trying to imagine how something like that seemed in the days before telescopes and space travel and satellite imagery, and how people came up with explanations.

I know some of the blazing light is because of flare on the camera lenses, but apparently it really did blaze up to bright-as-day, in the middle of the night. Wow.