What Was That Object Hurtling Through the Roosevelt Island And New York City Sky? A Fireball, Meteor Or Something Else?
2009 Austin, Texas Daytime Fireball Image From Meteorite USA For Illustrative Purposes Only
Did you happen to notice an object hurtling through the sky over Roosevelt Island yesterday afternoon? At least one person did - Mother Geek - who tweeted:
Just saw a weird comet-like thingy go over Roosevelt Island. Any ideas as to what it is (or am I going crazy)?The Blog, Mike's Astro Photos has an explanation:
A daytime fireball seen today from Philadelphia, New York City, New Jersey and other parts of the east coast turned heads and made waves. Over 20 AMS reports were filed within an hour of the fall and almost all of them put the space rock somewhere in the Atlantic....Some comments from readers of Mike's Astro Photos:
I witnessed it from midtown Manhattan. It appeared to be southeast of here at approximately 12:45 pm. It looked a little like a rocket that you would see from fireworks, but fired down from the sky, rather than upwards.and:
I saw it! I was looking over the east river from Manhattan and I saw it as it passed over Roosevelt Island! It was cool and no one believed me!NBC New York reported:
... Around 12:30 in the afternoon a fireball appeared in the sky over Pennsylvania, traveling east for hundreds of miles.More on Valentine's Day Fireball/Metorite at Lunar Meteorites Hunter. and reports on February 14 Fireball incident from American Meteor Society.
The internet lit up with reports of sightings from people in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland...
...Scientists say it most certainly was a large meteor, a piece of an asteroid or a comet that falls through the earth's atmosphere.
This latest meteor, one scientist says, was probably the size of a car and from its trajectory likely landed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean...
Here's a You Tube Video of a 2009 daytime fireball seen in Austin Texas.
So, did you see the fireball/meteor over Roosevelt Island?
4 comments :
Meteors would stop crashing to Earth if those pesky Octagon residents would just give up their express bus!
Maybe the meteors will stop if RIOC starts running two Tram cabins during non-rush hours rather than only one cabin.
$25 million sure seems like it bought us less Tram than prior to the "upgrade".
Maybe the meteors will stop if RIOC fills the storefronts with 'anything' and replaces Grishities with a store that dosnt re-date the rodent infested food. say it aint so - it happens again and again and again.
I don't get the complaints about running both tram cabins non-rush. A single cabin is departing every 15 minutes from both stations -- exactly the level of service we got before. The only change is the departure times from Manhattan.
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