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NASA - NASA Sky Cameras Capture Man-Sized Meteor Over Macon, Ga.

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Uploaded by on May 24, 2011

The video shows four distinct flares caused by the meteor breaking apart in its fiery final few seconds. You can see fragments coming off in the meteor's wake after three of these flares. After a last burst of light, the meteor ablated -- or "burned up" -- 38 miles above the town of Villa Rica, Ga., located on the border between Carrol and Douglas counties in Georgia.

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  • It would be nice to know what is represented in the rest of the picture/film. What are the triangle type objects, and is this an overlay, obviously, but why and how. I am assuming the triangular type things are markers, the lights markers? I am just curious to know what I am looking at in more detail.

  • @grangersmith

    I assume by "triangular objects" you mean the bright objects around the edge. These seem to me to be likely to be street lamps. This is a "fish-eye" image covering the whole sky. Anything on the outer edge is at ground level.

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