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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091118-utah-meteor-fireball.html

Meteor caught on tape
23 hrs ago
NBC -- A stunning sight lit up the sky over Utah and several western states Wednesday. The Willard Eccles observatory in Utah shot video of a meteor early Wednesday morning, just after midnight. Witnesses say it was very bright and lit up the sky for eight to ten seconds. People reported seeing it in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California.
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Meteor Explosion Lights Up Sky Over Utah
By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 18 November 2009
01:55 pm ET

A space rock exploded in the atmosphere, lighting up the sky over most of Utah just after midnight on Wednesday, according to KSL News. The news station reportedly fielded hundreds of calls from skywatchers who spotted the fireball from southern Utah to southern Idaho. Reports of observations have also come from Las Vegas and other areas in California. The meteor exploded with the equivalent of 0.5 to 1 kilotons of TNT, according to spaceweather.com. Then, about six hours later, a "twisting iridescent-blue cloud" lit up the dawn sky for residents in Utah and Colorado. Meteors are fallen debris from a comet or other space rock. As the debris enters the atmosphere, it heats up and produces the brilliant streaks of light we sometimes call shooting stars. Though most meteors are destroyed during this process, some make it to the ground and are known as meteorites. However, a NASA ambassador told KSL News the chances of finding a meteor rock from the latest show are small.
"It lasted for about eight to 10 seconds," skywatcher Don White, who was in Wyoming, told KSL News. "I think for about the last three to four seconds of that it was as light as day. I could see the bushes off to the right of the road. It was completely lit up. You'll see the meteors flying across the sky and everything, but I've never seen one come that close." Spaceweather.com also suggests the fireball was not associated with the Leonid meteor shower currently taking place. To read the full story and watch video clips of the fireball, check out KSL News coverage.

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And this is how the Media are trying to dumb down the events that Night on 11/18/09 look at the cover up that they spend a lot of time in doing...

FAA Glitch Impacted Military Air Defense
Defense Officials Say Their Ability to Scramble Fighter Jets Remained Unaffected
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/faa-glitch-impacted-military-air-defense/story...
By LUIS MARTINEZ
Nov. 19, 2009

Since 9/11, the military's air defense network over the U.S. has had the ability to monitor commercial airline traffic via Federal Aviation Administration radars. So today's F.A.A. computer glitch that caused widespread flight delays across the country, also affected the military's ability to see some of the information from the F.A.A. Lisa Stark explains how a computer error caused nationwide airline delays.
But, but military officials tell ABC News, the interruption did not affect its ability to take emergency action, like scrambling fighter jets to intercept aircraft acting in a suspicious manner, what the military calls "tracks of interest." "At no given time was our ability to execute our air sovereignty mission affected nor our ability to respond to a track of interest within the United States," says Lt. Col. Susan Romano, a spokesperson for CONR. the Continental U.S. division of NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command Romano says that within seconds of the glitch, the F.A.A. notified military authorities that there was an interruption in the military's ability to see some of the flight information on radars.

This is the same 24 hour conference call-like network involved in the incident where the NorthWest passenger jet overshot its intended destination of Minneapolis last month. In that instance, the F.A.A. was criticized for not getting the informing the military in a timely fashion that a plane had overshot its destination.


Within minutes of today's notification Romano says, the CONR operations center and the two air defense sectors that have watch over the entire U. S. had worked out solutions for the four hours that the system was out.

The Eastern Air Defense Sector, based in Rome, N.Y., and the Western Air Defense Sector, based at McChord AFB, in Washington state monitor air traffic for CONR. If they detect tracks of interest their information is used to scramble fighter jets. join my Network at:
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  • When a meteorite enters the Earths atmosphere the air that it is passing through is very thin and it cuts right through it. However the lower atmosphere has much greater density. The meteorite is moving at 11-72 Kps and when it hits the lower atmosphere it's like hitting concrete. Depending on its size, composition, speed and angle of approach mid air explosion of a meteorite can be considered a very common occurrence.

  • scare tactics. plian and simple. maybe this guy should have ivestigated the facts properly first then done a better video. how about that hey

  • if the population is a problem in America, I'd say that the beaners are the one who should be eliminated, coz they are the one who got a lot of kids and don't have green cards that's why there's a lot of mouth to feed, instead of worrying only citizens and immigrants, they make it harder for the country.

  • Statistics is merely an average. 50 percent chance to flip a coin and get heads or tails, but you could get 10 heads in a row. There's also a lot of stuff in the sky that we can't see; additionally a lot of stuff happens out there that we're not aware of. We're still learning a lot. Perhaps the December meteors can be explained by the Geminid meteor shower. Can you point me to a source that says we should only have a few "fireballs" per year? I know they're rarer, but a source is nice.

  • North of Germany Dec 8;Auburn,Nebraska Dec 16;Beijing,China Dec 16;Mojave Desert,California Dec 17;Report over Middleton,CT Dec 19 go to my channel Is2012TheDate and find why.

  • I know meteors explode. What do you think of frequency fireball appearance? "Experts" say 2 o 3 a year, every five years, every 10, 50 100 years(?). What do you think of eleven from sept to dec:Ontario,Canada sept 25;Mendoza,Argentina 27 sept;Ireland Oct 1;Indonesia oct 8;Netherlands oct 15 2009;Salt Lake city,utah nov 18;Johannesburgh,south africa nov 21;South of England Dec 3

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    Meteors do explode. A simple search on the internet will tell you that. Also, most meteors are traveling on the order of tens of thousands of miles per hour, so I doubt we intercepted it.

  • As Skytroop said, meteors explode in the sky all the time. Not all meteors burn up or simply smash into the ground. Meteors are made up of different materials; some are very dense and some are very brittle. So break apart in the sky, such as the Tunguska event (which was actually probably a comet, but meteors do explode). When you see a shooting star peak in brightness in the sky - that is what you'd consider an explosion. They heat up, break apart into a wider stream, and burn up.

  • this happened over siberia in the early 1900's. destroyed shit. this type of stuff sould happen more often but we've been lucky. and if that rock had been bigger ppl would have died

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