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Massachusetts residents describe multicoloured meteor blazing across sky and out to sea on Monday night
New Englanders were treated to a celestial light show Monday night when an apparent meteor blasted past them.
Multiple reports from people in Massachusetts and Maine, posted on the American Meteor Society website, described a large, bright object traveling slowly across the sky between 9 and 10 p.m., leaving a trail behind it before abruptly vanishing.
The observers described the meteor as a brightly colored object. Such meteors – also known as fireballs – can vary in color, depending on the different elements, like sodium and magnesium, vaporizing within them, said Mike Hankey, operations manager of the meteor society, in an e-mail …. http://www.sott.net
2012-09-02 19:19:55
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