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To: SunkenCiv
They may be plumes, not holes, and meteoroids may be the source.

If this theory is to be believed, wouldn't there necessarily have to be a fireball when something as hard as a meteoroid enters the atmosphere? Maybe I'm missing something obvious here.

FGS

31 posted on 10/21/2004 8:32:35 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: ForGod'sSake
Well, they would be small. To get a rock all the way through the atmosphere to the surface (depending in part, of course, on the initial velocity of the object) requires something on the order of a large motor vehicle in size. I've only seen one "shooting star" in daylight, it was a nice (but brief, no more than three seconds) show. If one lies out under the stars, on any night, not even during the various annual showers, one will catch (usually in the corner of the eye) a shooting star every minute or so. They are very brief in transit, and typically they are no more than a tiny pebble or even a grain of sand. :')
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32 posted on 10/21/2004 10:34:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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