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Spectacular rare green meteor lights up morning sky
New Zealand Herald ^
| 6/13/03
| AMANDA KYNE
Posted on 06/12/2003 1:25:17 PM PDT by Pro-Bush
A rare bright-green meteor flew across the sky early yesterday, surprising early risers around the country.
Denise Buckton of Auckland's Blockhouse Bay said she gasped when she saw the meteor from her living room window.
"It was lovely to look at. It had the same brightness as a flare."
Stardome Observatory spokesman Warren Hurley said the meteor was particularly bright and larger than average, at 20-50cm in diameter.
It flew across at 7.07am, providing a rare daytime spectacle.
It was first visible at an altitude of about 80km in the north and at about 20km when last seen in the south.
"It's rare to see them of that size," Mr Hurley said.
It travelled from Whangarei to Edendale, near Invercargill, and was visible for 10 seconds down the East Coast of New Zealand.
Meteors, which are left-over debris from the solar system, travel at 17km a second.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: greenmeteor
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To: onedoug
I was wondering what triffids were.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:06:38 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(I don't believe in coincidences!)
To: JennysCool
Thanks for being cool Jenny! I heard Art is going to substitute for George Noory next week!
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:08:05 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(I don't believe in coincidences!)
To: SquirrelKing
Yup. Like a big, glowing booger.
Uh...Never mind.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:09:20 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(I don't believe in coincidences!)
To: Pro-Bush
Great Scott! Kryptonite!
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:10:55 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: Pro-Bush
Excellent! Now all we need to do is collect the fragments and we'll have a weapon with which we'll be able to defend ourselves from General Zod.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:13:41 PM PDT
by
Green Knight
(Looking forward to seeing Jeb stepping over Hillary's rotting political corpse in '08.)
To: SquirrelKing
...."I've never heard of (the reports) panning out," Lacey said. "
Coincidence?
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:15:15 PM PDT
by
SGCOS
To: Pro-Bush
sure that wasn't Hillary sneezing as she rode her bloom?
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:23:41 PM PDT
by
bedolido
To: Pro-Bush
very scary!
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:26:52 PM PDT
by
bedolido
To: Pro-Bush
So what. In the 1999 Leonids were full of bright green metors. So were the 2000 if I remember.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:51:05 PM PDT
by
Conan the Librarian
(I am a Librarian. I don't know anything....I just know where to look it up.)
To: Man_of_Reason
Sounds like Soviet Space junk burning up. Possible, but only if the witnesses are really confused. re-entering space-junk moves very slowly compared to a meteor.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:56:55 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: Knightsofswing
Darned!! I can't see crap here in Michigan, too many clouds. Given the dateline of New Zealond, I think dirt would be more of a problem.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:58:11 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: Knightsofswing
Darned!! I can't see crap here in Michigan, too many clouds. Given the dateline of New Zealand, I think dirt would be more of a problem.
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:58:40 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: Conan the Librarian
So what
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posted on
06/12/2003 2:59:54 PM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(I don't believe in coincidences!)
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