Thread: Meteor Shower?
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Old 11-18-2001, 07:17 PM  
Bill8
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I live in pennsylvania. I first went out about 3:30 am, started seeing them in the first minute I was out. It was fuckin amazing. I'm still high from it. Some streaks across 30, nearly 40 degrees of the dome of the sky, mostly east to west, but lots of odd little streaks north to south. Some so bright they lit up the land like lightning. The peak was about 5:15 am. You could still see them as the sky was lighting up from dawn, only the brightest ones, burning this hot buttery yellow color. 350 is my low estimate, I was counting in my head 40 to 50 metors in about 10 minutes, but I knew as i was counting that I was only counting the biggest, there were probably at least double that if I count the short little wispy streaky ones. Lots of times there would be three or four big ones in the sky at once.

Definitely one of the wildest things I have ever seen.
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