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Meteor shoots across Texas
Topic Started: Dec 8 2012, 01:53 PM (177 Views)
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Folks from the Red River to Houston reported seeing a flash of light in the pre-dawn sky today.

A woman from McKinney said she saw what seemed to be a comet around 6:45 a.m. near Stonebridge Shopping Center, WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reports.

Meanwhile a Dallas man, who lives near White Rock Lake, said he saw a green trail in the sky, accompanied by a loud boom.

Others, including a woman in Houston who captured a picture of the phenomenon, reported seeing flashes of orange or white.

So what was it? Several local experts gave Channel 8 their hypotheses. The consensus: probably a meteor.

The American Meteor Society received 30 reported sightings, and based on those descriptions believes it to be a larger-than-normal “fireball” meteor.

“Most meteors are only the size of small pebbles,” Mike Hankey from the meteor society told Channel 8. “A meteor the size of a softball can produce light equivalent to the full moon for a short instant.”

A NASA expert has weighed in on our now identified flying object: It was a meteor.

Bill Cooke, who heads up the Meteoroid Environment Office, told KRLD (1080 AM) that the flash, caught on the agency’s cameras in New Mexico, was likely the size of a basketball.

“There’s no way that it would be taking out a town or anything like that,” Cooke told Emily Trube at KRLD. “This thing was pretty small.”

The National Weather Service has an alternate theory about what made that fireball over Texas this morning: space junk.


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I actually saw this. I quickly assumed I was tired and seeing things...
Edited by Toronto, Dec 8 2012, 01:53 PM.
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Winter Miracle
Dec 8 2012, 02:01 PM
Blaire?! Where are you?! Are you OK?!
Hell no I'm not okay. I wished I could have seen this. D=
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I know this is old news and I'm bumping but it reminds me of a thing in EU3.

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Theres another option when you get the last expansion pack, that is "STop looking at the sky!"

No matter what you choose, you lose stability.

Its the most assholeish way the game can go to lowering your stability.

And it SUCKS.
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Dec 22 2012, 04:42 PM
I know this is old news and I'm bumping but it reminds me of a thing in EU3.

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Theres another option when you get the last expansion pack, that is "STop looking at the sky!"

No matter what you choose, you lose stability.

Its the most assholeish way the game can go to lowering your stability.

And it SUCKS.
This is why I play Hearts of Iron instead.
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