Midwesterners take a meteorite shower

Phobos

Too cool!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/0....ap/index.html

any PF members from that area?

J-Man

I was actually outside having a smoke with a buddy at the time. I was looking up at the sky, as usual, the entire time except for about 2 seconds when it went by. My friend saw it though and couldn't stop talking about it for at least 5 minutes.

I guess the number one rule for meteor watching should be "don't blink".

Nicool003

WHAT?!?! THEY TOOK THE METEOR SHOWED?!!?! NOOOOOOO!

kyle_soule

I heard it was quite the showing too. I live near Chicago, which was where the largest of the meteors struck, unfortunately I was not out that night, but I did hear of a few people that saw it. Was this an unexpected meteor, I had heard nothing of it until I saw it on the news!

It also seemed to me like it was only one large meteor that hit and broke up, instead of many small meteor's.

J-Man

That's correct.
It broke up while in the atmosphere.