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Breathtaking video captures meteor exploding in night sky: It's 'a once-in-a-lifetime thing'
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Oct 29, 2018

Posted on 10/28/2018 7:36:28 AM PDT by ETL

A man in the U.K. managed to capture photos and video of a lifetime, documenting the exact moment when a meteor exploded and then disintegrated above a castle.

The images and video were caught during the Orionid meteor shower on Saturday, Oct. 20, SWNS reports. 44-year-old Nick Jackson was heading to take images of Clun Castle in Shropshire when the celestial object made its debut.

Mid-way during the shoot, Jackson saw the giant meteor behind the castle and said: "I immediately thought, 'I hope that was caught in the frame.'"

"It's very unusual to see a meteor that big. Because I was shooting the star trail, I couldn't check the footage immediately," he added.

It was only when he got home did he realize that he was able to capture pictures and video of the remarkable footage.

"It was a sheer stroke of luck that I just happened to be shooting the series of images when it happened," Jackson said. "With things like that, you've got to be in the right place at the right time."

Orionid meteors occur every fall when the Earth is passing through the remnants left by Halley's Comet, SWNS reports. Halley's Comet passes by Earth once every 75 years, the most recent in 1986. It is expected to come back in 2061.

The video is comprised of 30 photos that Jackson took, which show the meteor flying into the frame and then exploding into a ball of light.

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2 posted on 10/28/2018 7:36:41 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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5 posted on 10/28/2018 7:40:09 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Halley’s Comet passes by Earth once every 75 years, the most recent in 1986. It is expected to come back in 2061.
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I think that’s 1996.


6 posted on 10/28/2018 7:40:37 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: ETL

Trump’s fault!


7 posted on 10/28/2018 7:41:10 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: ETL

WOW - dream post...


8 posted on 10/28/2018 7:44:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
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To: ETL

Awesome. Exactly what will happen to Democraps in the midterms.


9 posted on 10/28/2018 7:44:49 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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To: lepton

Halley’s 1986 apparition was the least favourable on record. The comet and Earth were on opposite sides of the Sun in February 1986, creating the worst viewing circumstances for Earth observers for the last 2,000 years.[96]

Halley’s closest approach was 0.42 AU.[97] Additionally, with increased light pollution from urbanization, many people failed to even see the comet. It was possible to observe it in areas outside of cities with the help of binoculars.[98] Further, the comet appeared brightest when it was almost invisible from the northern hemisphere in March and April.[99]

Halley’s approach was first detected by astronomers David Jewitt and G. Edward Danielson on 16 October 1982 using the 5.1 m Hale telescope at Mount Palomar and a CCD camera.[100]

The first person to visually observe the comet on its 1986 return was amateur astronomer Stephen James O’Meara on 24 January 1985. O’Meara used a home-built 24-inch telescope on top of Mauna Kea to detect the magnitude 19.6 comet.[101]

On 8 November 1985, Stephen Edberg (then serving as the Coordinator for Amateur Observations at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Charles Morris were the first to observe Halley’s Comet with the naked eye in its 1986 apparition.[102][103]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet#History


10 posted on 10/28/2018 7:45:10 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: lepton

I was reading the bio of Mark Twain a few weeks ago. That guy was born when Halleys comet came by earth in 1835 and died exactly when it returned in 1910. Pretty weird.


11 posted on 10/28/2018 7:48:24 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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BEAUTIFUL!! Thank you for sharing.

~ lyby


12 posted on 10/28/2018 7:51:14 AM PDT by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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"The [exploding meteor] images and video were caught during the Orionid meteor shower on Saturday, Oct. 20..."

Orionid meteors occur every fall when the Earth is passing through the remnants left by Halley's Comet, SWNS reports. Halley's Comet passes by Earth once every 75 years, the most recent in 1986. It is expected to come back in 2061."

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13 posted on 10/28/2018 7:52:15 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Great writer. Just read The Innocents Abroad. His observations on Europe, Middle East and Islam still relevant today.


14 posted on 10/28/2018 7:53:11 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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15 posted on 10/28/2018 7:56:50 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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16 posted on 10/28/2018 7:56:57 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: lepton; ETL

You might be thinking Hale Bop. I believe that Marshall McLuhan and Christina Applegate rode away on a spaceship with that one.


17 posted on 10/28/2018 7:58:46 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: lepton

Why is it only “expected” to come back in 2061 is there some question about orbital mechanics between now and then?


18 posted on 10/28/2018 7:59:07 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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19 posted on 10/28/2018 8:03:50 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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Thank you for posting the images and gif. Great posting effort FRiend!
20 posted on 10/28/2018 8:04:01 AM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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