Asteroid or Junk: passing through B.C and Washington

by LarryDeezell | September 14, 2009 at 03:07 pm

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There are sightings of an asteroid going over the states Washington and Oregon, as well as Canadian's province British Columbia. The sitings were told to be "fireballs" in the sky around 8 pm local time on September 12. The direction of the asteroids were coming from the east and heading towards the west.

The east to west motion can rule out a re-entry of man-made space junk since 99.9+% of man-made stuff orbits the Earth from west to east

The asteroid was told to be going in a slow motion, slower than a typical meteor and was small, no bigger than a tennisball.

It is possible the fireball dropped some meteorites though the lack of any reports of sonic booms suggests that material didn’t survive to reach the lower atmosphere

The small fireball first came visible at an altitude of 70-100 km and disappeared around 20-40 kms up in the sky

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