Stephen James O'Meara's secret sky: Dancing to a deaf wind
November 2007: Observe a meteor flash to uncover a ghostly train.
Contributed by Stephen James O'Meara
Published:
November 1, 2007
| It happened in a flash. On the morning of November 17, 2006, I was scanning the predawn sky for Leonid meteors when a magnificent magnitude –4 bolide charged from the zenith. It terminated about 20° above the eastern horizon in an unusually bright explosion of white light. Sparks flew in all directions from that final burst before the meteor vanished. |
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