23 March 2013
Bright Meteor Lights Up The Northeast U.S. Friday Night.
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The video is courtesy of Hopkins Automotive in Salisbury, Maryland. They are just across from the WBOC-TV Newsplex, where our phones melted at 7:53 PM. It looks like it was probably over PA. or NJ since folks in CT. saw it in the southern sky.
It broke up into three parts, and some folks reported a popping sound. Blue-green tail which may have been magnesium burning. We contacted NORAD and they were not tracking any space junk in our area at the time. So, likely a meteor.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.