02-17-2013, 07:48 PM
Pog =- thanks for the additional info. You almost certainly saw a bolide and/or fireball and quite a spectacular one. Since it was heading towards you it's unlikely you saw a trail. You would have seen one if the object was large (like the Russian one) but suspect this was small enough to create what's called a train but I hate that term. It's a trail of ionized molecules that quickly recover and given this was daylight you'll never have seen it. At night you might have seen that trail, at least for a few seconds.
If I'm right I'm not surprised it wasn't reported on the news. You might have been the only person to see it or at least one of very few people. Those things aren't tracked before they enter the atmosphere, there's no warning of them entering the atmosphere and only those who happen to be in the right place at the right time and also looking at the right place see them.
Count yourself as very fortunate to have seen something like that. Most people never will.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
If I'm right I'm not surprised it wasn't reported on the news. You might have been the only person to see it or at least one of very few people. Those things aren't tracked before they enter the atmosphere, there's no warning of them entering the atmosphere and only those who happen to be in the right place at the right time and also looking at the right place see them.
Count yourself as very fortunate to have seen something like that. Most people never will.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/