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Scott,
I'm
pretty sure I saw the one everybody's talking about while I was out Sunday
night, but it was just a glance as I lifted my head from the eyepiece during
initial drift alignment. From what I can tell here in Colorado
Springs, this was a nice meteor, but no "end of the world" fireball. I
typically see a lot of fireballs in my adventures, and although I didn't quite
catch this one dead-on, it seems to be only noteworthy because it happened early
enough in the evening for the general public to see.
BTW, I
had to listen to the once-hourly replay of some idiot's account of this meteor
on the radio all night. It appeared to be a big one, but not big enough to
warrant that kind of coverage. It may have left some terrestrial debris,
however, so that's at least a redeeming aspect of the event.
Let’s try this again
with a subject.
Did anyone happen to catch the
single meteor display Sunday night at about 7:20 mountain
time. We were descending into
Denver heading
west and one of the brightest meteors I’ve ever seen streaked downward toward
the western horizon When I turned on the news at the hotel they even made
mention of the spectacular display.
Scott
Hammonds
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