[higgmeister]

Finny, could it be this Comet that you're seeing?
The text makes it sound like it will be very dim
though, until the Impactor disturbed it

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050603_deep_impact.html

In early July, NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft will deploy a tiny impactor to smash into the nucleus of a small comet. The idea is to excavate a sizable crater and provide valuable insight into the true nature of comets.

/.../

Finding the target

During June, Comet Tempel 1 will be gliding on a south-southeast course through the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin. The comet will have already made its closest approach to the Earth in early May at a distance of 66 million miles (106 million kilometers).

Although it is now moving away from the Earth, the comet is still approaching the Sun, so its overall brightness in the coming days and weeks will appear to change very little, if at all. The comet is expected to hover at around tenth-magnitude, meaning that it will glow about 40 times dimmer than a star that is at the threshold of visibility with the unaided eye.

So, to successfully locate it, you will need three things:

A star chart with the comet’s projected path plotted on it.
A good telescope and of course,
A dark, unpolluted night sky.

During the next several weeks, Virgo and the comet will be over in the west-southwest part of the sky as darkness falls and setting soon after midnight, local daylight time.

The night of impact

The Deep Impact spacecraft is expected to arrive near Comet Tempel 1 on July 4, one day before the comet reaches perihelion (its closest point to the Sun). It will have released its copper...

[higgmeister]

"Deep Impact"

[higgmeister]

exactly two weeks left.

[tophat9000]

I live in the Buena Park area and while I did not see what you you saw tonight I have seen on several occasion for some years some type of aircraft at very extremely high altitude following that path (roughly going from so. west to no. east) an around sunset.... to be honest I always figured it was something going in to that base that isn't there in NV

[sonofatpatcher2]

As you may tell by all the catcalls you get posting this info, it is easy to see why a lot of people do not report seeing strange things in the sky.

Myself, I have seen many suspect things in the night skies while fishing both with and without witnesses. There are things that go bump in the night out there and I just hope it is Uncle Sam's doing...

Otherwise, we may need to bone up on How to Serve Man.

[Main Street]

Last summer around 11:30 pm here in Michigan, I was out walking my dog with my brother. I looked up in the sky and noticed what I first thought was squadron of fighter jets in formation. I yelled out to my brother, "LOOK!" pointing up. We then realized that they were not jets, but a formation of shooting stars. They moved across the sky from the west all the way to the eastern sky until they were visually out of site. Occasionally one would get brighter like a flash and burn out as they raced across the sky some gaining and some falling slightly behind. I had never seen anything like that before, and thought it would make the news, but there was no story on it. Here is an illustration I made to show roughly what it looked like.....

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Little people, why can't we all just get along?"

[Steve Van Doorn]

sorry I was out side around that time but I wasn't looking in the sky :(

Please take a pic next time.. if there is a next time

[right way right]

Just haven't posted in a while bump.

[bd476]

Did you see this?

[Dallas59]

What's this??? The reporter on FOX just looked up, and people started to yell get out and then this screen came up, hasn't been off yet...

[Dashing Dasher]

When I see weird things in the sky - the first thing I do is run inside, turn the computer on, wait for it to warm up, and then log on to FR and ask the FReepers if they saw it too....

/sarc

[Responsibility1st]

The Great Prophet Yahweh has spoken. And he done told you about this. He just maybe had his location wrong........

MEDIA ALERT: Spaceships Will Appear Over Las Vegas On My Signal

[Dead Dog]

The N. Koreans missed. They might have another shot.

[Centurion2000]

Ahh, made it .. I'm home.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I've seen meteors split up and break up going through the atmosphere. There was a really bright one over Chicago a couple years back during the early evening that stopped traffic.

[Doohickey]

You should not drink and post!

[Checkers]

bump

[devane617]

Rods are common in your part of the world. Go to:
www.flyingrods.com
www.roswellrods.com
For more info.

[RavenATB]

Ooops! I'm sorry. I had fajitas for lunch today. It gives me the "wind" something awful.