Meteors in Jersey...

Funny, didn't remember hearing anything about a meteor shower on the news as I enjoy seeing them, but I just had a call from a buddy of mine to go look outside... Sure enough, saw a few in the sky. Looks like they likely landed miles from here, towards Trenton though likely shy of the city... Nice show... I'd take pics, but my camera is pretty crappy, and they wouldn't show well...(my eclipse pics were likewise garbage, small zoom). Will likely be some good pics on the news though I'd imagine....

I'm not seeing anything in the news nor have I heard anything locally (Parsippany at the moment) about it.

Mercer county here, outside Trenton...I did see a couple meteors, but haven't seen anything on the news yet...and it's been about 20 minutes now... I guess it isn't big news or anything, so hopefully they'll say something at 5. Channel 9's got nothing so far...








[edit on 29-10-2004 by CarlPhillips]

I�ve been looking through projected meteorite shower data and I don�t see anything listed. Wonder if it could be a satellite falling back to earth.



[edit on 29-10-2004 by kinglizard]

I�ve been looking through projected meteorite shower data and I don�t see anything listed. Wonder if it could be a satellite falling back to earth.

Maybe... They looked kind of big though... I thought they usually came down over water? Well, I hope nobody gets hurt...

I did a search, and I didn't see any debris planned to fall today...but who knows...???

I�ve been looking through projected meteorite shower data and I don�t see anything listed. Wonder if it could be a satellite falling back to earth.

Maybe... They looked kind of big though... I thought they usually came down over water? Well, I hope nobody gets hurt...

EDIT: I did a search, and I didn't see any debris planned to fall today...but who knows...???

oops, double post...








[edit on 29-10-2004 by Wilmuth]

Originally posted by kinglizard
I�ve been looking through projected meteorite shower data and I don�t see anything listed. Wonder if it could be a satellite falling back to earth

Usually they have have an announcement about it. Kind of strange IMHO.

Originally posted by CarlPhillips
Mercer county here, outside Trenton...I did see a couple meteors, but haven't seen anything on the news yet...and it's been about 20 minutes now...

Carl,

Can you describe how they looked? How long they lasted etc etc????

Maybe its related to this?



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[edit on 10-30-2004 by William One Sac]

Yeah what's going on??? I saw some here in Aruba as well...

I hope they explain this in full soon, seeing fireballs plummet from the sky must scare ALOT of people.

Hope the fireball doesnt land in a Welle, that would suck now wouldnt it?

That would have to be a serious bit of space junk I'm tipping - that said there would be one less piece of junk 'they' have to monitor, no?

Could this be confirmed by that NEO agency?