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Was just down the cliffs in HPP and saw a big
thing with a cool tail going toward SW.
Bright white with orange and greenish tail.
Biggest shooting thing I ever saw. Very cool.
Whales were making noise and things shooting overhead.
Doesn't get much better.Got to love living here.
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I wonder of it is PANSTARRS, which I am looking forward to seeing in the next few days
Info at this link
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/0...s-weekend/
Happy celestial viewing to all and a BIG round of applause to Hawaii for finding this comet
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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
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Akualele perhaps?
The simple explanation:
http://www.lovebigisland.com/meteor-show...an-culture
Much more than a meteor for us... in the true definition.
JMO.
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Interesting site, but very confused and misleading.
Tom
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Sorry, Tom, just posted that link for a brief description of the akualele, not so much for the entire content.
Here's a much better explanation, which is the closest I could find to our belief and experiences with
akualele.
http://www.mysterious-america.net/realitycheck1107.html
JMO.
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Opihikao - no need for an apology. The site was interesting but some of the astronomy stuff is a bit messed up, that's all. I should have been clearer.
Tom
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The united flight often makes a straight in approach from the pacific. Landing lights are visible from quite a ways out.
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I saw this too, from about a mile up in HPP. Not a comet, not United Air. Looked to me like a meteor flaming out on entry. Super impressive and beautiful, really well lit up.
Yea, Tomk, probably like... thimble sized... Gorgeous though.
In '97 or '98 I was living in Seattle, and my partner at the time and I saw a Russian rocket booster (we found out later) re-enter the atmosphere and break apart, and head straight over the city - west to east. I swear, from west Seattle, it looked like it was going to take out downtown. Turns out it landed in Michigan or somewhere over there. Crazy.
Duck. And. Cover. That's what we were thinking at the time.
-- rainshadow
-- rainshadow
