Fireball Explodes Over Colorado, 100 Times Brighter than the Moon (Video)

by steve468 | December 7, 2008 at 07:47 am
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Fireball Explodes Over Colorado, 100 Times Brighter than the Moon (Video)

Fireball Explodes Over Colorado, 100 Times Brighter than the Moon (Video)

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Last night, the Colorado skies played host to a dazzling fireball event. The meteor blasted through the atmosphere, detonated and outshone the Moon by 100 times. It is therefore expected that there were many eyewitnesses, and the Cloudbait Observatory (5 km north of the town of Guffey, CO) is appealing to people to report their accounts of the fireball. Fortunately, the observatory managed to capture an all-sky camera video of the early morning explosion.


Cloudbait Observatory all-sky camera image of the bright explosion on Dec. 6th at 1:28 am MST. No larger image available (Chris Peterson)
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