We saw it in downtown Silver Spring!! We didn't hear any noise though. We were diffidently looking for the comet, without binoculars and a little too early, when it streaked across the sky in a generally easterly direction.
It has been reported from Boston to the Outer Banks, so it had to be fairly high in the sky for it to be seen over that large an area.
Rob Hilton
Silver Spring
On Friday, March 22, 2013 8:12:19 PM UTC-4, jugbayjs wrote:
> Duck! As in "hit the dirt!
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> At ~ 7:53 pm (minutes ago) I was at home (Jug Bay, PG Co), watching for evening flights/woodcocks. I had just heard some wood ducks buzz by low, their wings whistling in the wind. All of a sudden I heard a much louder FFFFFF, expecting more ducks but somehow so close they sounded LOUD. Instead, what I saw was a meteorite, VERY LOW, shooting at about NNE and blazing orange. Weird thing was, after a second or two it turned green and blue before losing color altogether. I was expecting to hear a crash, but nothing else was heard. From the trajectory, it looked bound for a landing somewhere in AA County, or maybe the Bay if it made it that far.
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> Cheers!
> Jeff Shenot
> Croom MD
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