Posted on 11/25/2004 5:03:25 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
Might have been the trail they photographed, but it looks like a distant contrail and glint off the water to me.
There have been networks of cameras photographing high altitude meteor trails for about forty years. See:
Meteor Science and Engineering
D.W.R. McKinley
McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.
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