Spectacular rare green meteor lights up morning sky

New Zealand Herald ^ | 6/13/03 | AMANDA KYNE

[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.

[Pro-Bush]

I was wondering what triffids were.

[Pro-Bush]

Thanks for being cool Jenny! I heard Art is going to substitute for George Noory next week!

[Pro-Bush]

Yup. Like a big, glowing booger.

Uh...Never mind.

[B-Chan]

Great Scott! Kryptonite!

[Green Knight]

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.

[SGCOS]

...."I've never heard of (the reports) panning out," Lacey said. "

Coincidence?

[bedolido]

sure that wasn't Hillary sneezing as she rode her bloom?

[bedolido]

very scary!

[Conan the Librarian]

So what. In the 1999 Leonids were full of bright green metors. So were the 2000 if I remember.

[lepton]

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.

[lepton]

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.

[lepton]

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.

[Pro-Bush]

So what