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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: "Point" Meteor

*Something I've not yet witnessed:

Meteors are supposed to be long streaks of light, but occasionally one comes straight at you and it looks like a point. Geir Oye captured this rare image of a "point meteor" on Jan. 3rd during the annual Quadrantid meteor shower.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Commodore

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From: Upstate NY, USA

Registered: 2004-07-25

Posts: 1,021

Re: "Point" Meteor

:shock:
RUN!!!

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Palomar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: "Point" Meteor

:shock:
RUN!!!

*LOL!    Yeah.  The original caption at spaceweather.com mentioned the photographer wasn't hit.  I wonder how many point meteors are observed per year, on average.  Hmmmmmm...time to Google.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)