Spectacular Meteor Breaks Up Over California – As Bright As The Full Moon
Spectacular Meteor Breaks Up Over California – As Bright As The Full Moon
Source: Earth Heal – News For An Earth In Transition
Wikimedia Commons image of a bollide or fireball – a piece of space debris entering Earth’s atmosphere and causing a particularly bright streak across the sky.
Contributed by Deborah Byrd and Message To Eagle
On Wednesday evening, October 17, around 19:45 local time, hundreds of residents of from Oakland, San Francisco and Santa Cruz contacted news stations reporting a loud boom, explosions and streaks of light seen in the skies.
Pictures of very bright fireball were captured by a telescope at the University of California’s Lick Observatory – just east of San Jose.
NASA reported that the 2012 Orionid meteor shower is set to peak Saturday night into Sunday morning.
“Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley’s Comet, the source of the Orionids,” Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office said NASA’s website.
Wes Jones in Belmont, California caught the meteor disappearing behind the trees while using a wide-field camera. Image copyright Wes Jones.
This is a compilation of some excellent shots taken by Bob Moreno.
