Meteor enters atmosphere over Alabama and disintegrates, says Nasa

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Meteor enters atmosphere over Alabama and disintegrates, says Nasa

Associated Press
theguardian.com, Tuesday 10 September 2013 16.03 BST

Nasa officials say brilliant lights in the sky and loud booms reported in Alabama and Georgia came from a meteor that streaked across the South.

Officials at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville say a baseball-size fragment of a comet entered Earth's atmosphere above Alabama at 8:18pm CDT Monday.

Nasa officials say the meteor traveled at a speed of 76,000 mph. They say just three seconds after hitting the atmosphere, it disintegrated 25 miles above the central Alabama town of Woodstock, producing a flash of light.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/10/nasa-alabama-southern-states-meteor

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1. There's a Woodstock in Alabama?

Who knew?

--imm

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3. Dude, I hope it's as good as the one in New York was......

I'm there if it is........

"And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky,
Turning into butterflies
above our Nation.

We are stardust,
We are golden......"

[jakeXT]

2. video

The AMS said they received reports from as far away as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan of the meteor as it streaked through the atmosphere.

A concert-goer at a Mumford & Sons concert in Birmingham was able to capture a short video of the meteor as it sailed overhead.

http://www.11alive.com/rss/article/305839/40/Meteor-lights-up-skies-across-Georgia-Alabama?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter