[BenLurkin]

Frame grab from a Youtube video of the brilliant meteor that flared over Australia overnight.

[BenLurkin]

Meteor flies across Melbourne skyline part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0EA15eA-Y

[ClearCase_guy]

a small, twisted piece of metal weighing as much as a crushed soda can

Question: Had the soda can been uncrushed, would it have weighed more? or less?

[MeshugeMikey]

precisely the same sort of object I saw over Norther California several months ago

it was astonishing. I was so amazed by it that I neglected to grab my camera ...

[CharlesOConnell]

Flaming Space Junk Makes Jaws Drop Off Australia

[Southack]

Just a little tip: if you see something “moving slowly” toward you from the sky...and after a little while it appears to “not be moving” then it is in reality actually moving precisely toward you.

Appearing stationary is an optical trick by moving objects when you have no frame of reference (e.g. ships at sea).

[MediaMole]

Sputnik 1 crashed in little Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It’s a cool bit of cold war history to see the marker in the road where it hit.