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Green Meteor?

BrotherVoodooBrotherVoodoo Registered User regular
edited April 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
Saw a streaking green light fall horizontally across the sky. It definately wasn't a plane, it was moving far far to fast. But I've seen meteors before, but never that color. I'm assuming that would mean some kind of metal was in/on it. Tell me I'm not stupid and or crazy...well at least for this reason.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Perfectly normal. Don't know why, but I do know it happens.

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  • MrDelishMrDelish Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Doesn't copper burn green?

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  • BrotherVoodooBrotherVoodoo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    MrDelish wrote: »
    Doesn't copper burn green?

    I believe you're right. So copper could totally be in meteors right?

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  • PheezerPheezer Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2009
    Wikipedia probably has something to say on the subject. I would think a few elements could burn in a greenish colour but yeah I know copper totally does.

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  • DuffelDuffel jacobkosh Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    OH SHIT WE'RE ALL FUCKED

    You're girlfriend is going to get kidnapped and get her pretty brains sucked out

    Then tentacle people will take over the world
    But seriously everything burns a different color, so this is probably just some weirdly composed meteor.

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  • AwkAwk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Yes, its possible the meteoroid contained copper... its also possible the green light was caused by light defraction in the atmosphere, i think.

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  • FeralFeral ＭＥＭＥＴＩＣＨＡＲＩＺＡＲＤ interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    It's not that weird.

    A few years ago I went out to the hills outside of Santa Cruz to watch the Perseid meteor shower.

    Every single meteor that fell was a brilliant green, and some of the larger ones cast a green glow that lit up the sky and ground. It was absolutely spectacular... and very very green.

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  • YodaTunaYodaTuna Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Mark me down for seeing a green meteor explode in the sky. Crazy shit.

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  • HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=150099

    According to this, they're fairly common. Something to do with ionized oxygen, according to this one.

    http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg12983.html

    And something to do with the angle through the atmosphere according to this one.

    Both links suggest they're common. I know I've never seen one, but it could be a matter of conditions and visual acuity. Quite a few people can see the yellow or red color of some planets, and supposedly some people can even make out the red in betelgeuse on a good night. I know they all look white to me.

    http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=938

    There's actually a picture of one.

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  • PolloDiabloPolloDiablo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Go find it. If it turns out to by a Kryptonian child, you can train it to rob banks and shit for you.

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  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    PolloDiablo wrote: »
    Go find it. If it turns out to by a Kryptonian child, you can train it to rob banks and shit for you.

    Fucking Kryptonians.

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    It's calling you dammit!

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2009
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds_(short_story)

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  • stawkstawk Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    im predicting the second coming of sigmar...

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I see everyone has made the Superman reference already.

    So I whip out my Joe Dirt reference!

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  • NightDragonNightDragon 6th Grade Username Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I've seen that exact same thing, actually - during a sunset a few years ago, I saw a meteor streak across the sky and then explode in a little green flash. Crazy!

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    PolloDiablo wrote: »
    Go find it. If it turns out to by a Kryptonian child, you can train it to rob banks and shit for you.

    I was going to say go find it, and use it to keep Kryptonian children from stopping you robbing banks and shit.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2009
    did nobody heed my warning?

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  • cooljammer00cooljammer00 Hey Small Christmas-Man!Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Doc wrote: »
    did nobody heed my warning?

    Don't worry, Doc. It'll just turn out to be a big ole hunk of poo.

    It's a space peanut.

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