Hi Astro 78, I saw my first fire ball ever the other night. I actually mentioned it in a post I made in the 17P/Holmes thread. Below is what I said. It was truely amazing, so I can understand your excitement.
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Incidentally the sky put on another show last night. At 12.05am EST a huge meteor / fire ball thingy streaked accross the entire northern sky. Scared the heck out of me. Started as a normal shooting star and erupted into a glowing flame with a huge bright green, blue and purple tail. After the initial flare it died off and went back to a normal shooting star again and then erupted a second time and slowly got smaller until it burnt out. The whole deal lasted for what seemed like 10 seconds, although judging by how fast it was moving i'm sure it was much less than that probably around 3 to 5 seconds. I was gob smacked, was the most beautiful meteor I have ever seen. Did anyone else see it? I'm sure someone did, because many people would have been looking at 17p/holmes around that time.
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