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RobertEarl

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6. I think I saw its sisters

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 08:40 PM

Feb 2013

That night I was viewing Polaris. Several times that night I noticed meteors streaking past, just to the west of Polaris. May have even seen the big one.

Location: Tennessee. Looking north. Russia is over the north pole from Tennessee.

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Russia meteor's origin tracked down [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2013 OP

space? <eom> boomer55 Feb 2013 #1

A preliminary reconstruction of the orbit of the Chelyabinsk Meteoroid... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #2

and kudos to Johannes Kepler for the laws of planetary motion! lastlib Feb 2013 #3

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Imagine a meteor strike like that in the US during the bush** years. Wilms Feb 2013 #4

I think I saw its sisters RobertEarl Feb 2013 #6

Reply to the original post Aaronquah Mar 2013 #8