Posted on 12/18/2014 9:08:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: This was a sky to remember. While viewing the Geminids meteor shower a few days ago, a bright fireball was captured over Mt. Balang, China with particularly picturesque surroundings. In the foreground, a sea of light clouds slowly floated between dark mountain peaks. In the background, the constellation of Orion shone brightly, with the familiar three stars of Orion's belt visible near the image top right. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, is visible near the image center. The bright fireball flashed for only a fraction of second on the lower right. The source of the fireball was a pebble that intersected the protective atmosphere of Earth, originally expelled by the Sun-orbiting asteroid-like object 3200 Phaethon.
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[Credit: Alvin Wu]
Wow. God certainly can paint a scene, can’t He.
Wow great photos, thanks for posting that.
I had a green fireball (that would indicate an Iron meteor) shoot over my head and the treetops at cabin at Lake of the Woods one night in 1996....97 ??
It seemed like 50 feet above me (probably was a 1000 feet) and disappeared behind tree tops in 2 or 3 seconds, but it was amazingly bright and glowed green with some white, red, orange, lit up whole cabinsite for a few seconds. It was almost horizontal in flight, maybe a few degrees off horizontal. A very memorable experience.
Great picture, Sir.
Accursed Ohio, the second-cloudiest state in the union. Sigh...
Indeed he does! I saw another astronomy picture on here that showed galaxies that were billions of light years away, they had to be FAR older than our planet and Solar system! Isn't that just amazing? God must have created those before creating our own planet.
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