Comments on: Video of the daylight California fireball

By: Tribeca Mike

Tribeca Mike — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:18:52 +0000

Wowsers, I was hoping someone somewhere would be able to film this. You made my night!

By: Video of April California Daytime Fireball Surfaces

Video of April California Daytime Fireball Surfaces — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 02:01:14 +0000

[...] Plait says the video is being studied by astronomers and meteoriticists to try to calculate the trajectory, [...]

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 19:21:05 +0000

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By: Kevin in Sacramento

Kevin in Sacramento — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:30:48 +0000

Ron, the falling meteorites were picked up by WEATHER RADAR over an area centered on Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, CA. This is how the first fragments were located. It is not to hard to check parking lots and trails and HOPE to get lucky.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:30:27 +0000

I came for the video and muted the music.

By: kat wagner

kat wagner — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:19:02 +0000

I came for the video and stayed for the music.

By: Carey

Carey — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:09:42 +0000

Don’t worry Adrian (#4), it just loops and zooms in after that. If you need help seeing where it is, it’s about smack in the middle of the the left third of the video frame.

By: Adrian Morgan

Adrian Morgan — Thu, 31 May 2012 15:57:58 +0000

No matter what I do (tried every kind of refresh), the video keeps stopping at 16 seconds, as though it has some kind of fault.

By: Todd W.

Todd W. — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:29:14 +0000

Very cool. Would love to witness one of these myself.

By: BigBob

BigBob — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:00:13 +0000

> Shon Bollock

Srsly? Yep, name checks out!
Bob