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Large Meteor Breakup (2011.09.30)

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A wide field meteor camera at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center recorded this spectacular meteor breaking up in Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 30, 2011, 8:37 p.m. EDT. Also visible is a star-like object moving slowly toward the upper middle of the field of view -- the upper stage of the Zenit booster that launched the Russian Cosmos 2219 intelligence satellite back in 1992. Orbiting 500 miles above Earth, this empty rocket body can get bright enough to be seen with the unaided eye.




credit: NASA

source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?media_id=114569411

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  • Put your cursor right where the meteor's are hitting the atmosphere and it looks like they are crashing into it and blowing up there.

    ONLY YOU CAN CONTROL METEORS!

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  • What's that thing in the back that moves as the meteor passes by?

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  • So cooooool.

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