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    Default did you guys see THIS??

    Check this out-

    http://news.aol.com/article/meteor-s...n-skies/257570

    pretty wild!! do we have anyone from Canada here?

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    Yeah, that's a pretty big one by the looks of it. I saw that in the Fark.com video section a little bit ago.

    The headline for it was "Coolest near mass extinction you'll see today"

    I must be in a daze today as I just watched it and moved on to watching Shaun the Sheep.

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    Pretty nifty, isn't it? I'm actually living just outside Edmonton, but unfortunately I missed the show Heh, I think I was doing more laser research at the time.

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    did this strike anywhere? or did it just pass through the atmosphere and break up?

    this seemed like a pretty big one! scarey. beautiful and amazing. but scarey too!!

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    From what I gathered it just carried on by, but they figure there's a good chance of smaller bits breaking off and impacting, which has all the science-type folks excited. I guess they were trying to exactly track its path, then check out to a couple klicks either side, to check for bits and pieces.

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    I did actually se the LIGHT from the metor where I live !
    The sky was suddendly bright (as in 100% moonlight) and after 2 second it was total darkness again !

    It`s was crazy..
    But if I had seen that metor exploded ..... I think I would have been running to the basement heh heh

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    Quote Originally Posted by liteglow View Post
    I did actually se the LIGHT from the metor where I live !
    The sky was suddendly bright (as in 100% moonlight) and after 2 second it was total darkness again !

    It`s was crazy..
    But if I had seen that metor exploded ..... I think I would have been running to the basement heh heh

    Were you in Canada or did you see this in Norway? Just curious.

    -Jonathan

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    I think i saw it too, or at least a couple of pieces that had broken off it.. and i am in Denmark, Europe..
    It was like a shooting star times 100.. very bright on the north-northwestern sky leaving small glowing fragments as it passed by, just like a bottle rocket.. but it was surely no rocket..
    it was at about 8 PM local time, i dont know when the canadian incident was, but it was on the news the next morning, so i think it was at about the same time.. i also saw a smaller version some hours later, but that was more like a "normal" shooting star...

    I wonder if this could be linked to that toolbox that was dropped from the international space station the day before :-)

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    I wonder if this was a known object on a near collision?

    http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/

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