03-08-2013, 06:27 PM
Just so it's clear, was this thing moving or stationary? I don't think it could be comet Pan-STARRS (which would appear stationary) because it appears very close to the setting sun, which is a little hard to see from the HPP cliffs! Assuming it was a meteor (and the description fits that) then the orange colour would have come from molecules in the atmosphere being heated up but the green colour probably came from magnesium in the meteor itself.
Sue - although it was bright you might be surprised to know this was probably a very small-pebble-sized object entering the atmosphere, probably even smaller than that!
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
Sue - although it was bright you might be surprised to know this was probably a very small-pebble-sized object entering the atmosphere, probably even smaller than that!
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/