Re: The flaming great meteor thread

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:58 pm

I think the Perseids are peaking tonight.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:02 pm

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1557950035760922625

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Aug 13, 2022 10:08 pm

https://twitter.com/flair4thevisual/status/1557839696314736642

by Fangirl Three Sun Aug 14, 2022 7:38 am

6 meteors in 3 nights' watching is, sadly, pretty realistic when it comes to meteor showers.

Sadly that composite picture is highly likely to be distributed minus caption and represented as a snapshot.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:23 pm

https://twitter.com/MAstronomers/status/1618327760262561792

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jan 25, 2023 8:24 pm

The tiny body is just 3.8 to 8.4 meters in size, which implies that if it interacts with the atmosphere, it will ultimately split into a thousand fragments that will later be burned by friction.

https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/01/breaking-asteroid-2023-bu-will-crash.html

Colbert

by Fangirl Three Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:56 am

That is pretty close, like missing a football by 17cm.

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