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While looking for the Andromeda Galaxy tonight at approximately 2:25 a.m. (10/5/2024, Saturday), as we were facing northward up in the topmost region of the night sky, my grandson Kat, his friend Adrian, and I saw the largest meteor imagineable! The meteor moved from left to right from north-northeast to west-southwest. I quickly yelled real loud to the boys to look, and we made short, sudden comments as we watched. Immediately after this bright meteor disappeared, I extended my right arm its full length (I have a short arm length, I'm only 4'11"), and I used my right thumb and index finger to approximate the size of the meteor; it was the size of a large pea according to my line of sight and memory recall just a second or two after seeing it vanish. The meteor was a light, light, brilliant orange shade with a bright blue firey tail at the back and a long, wide, white plume at the end. The meteor was visible for three seconds before it vanished. I've never seen one that huge! After the meteor disappeared we saw the white tail for several seconds as it slowly faded into the atmosphere. Thinking about it now still takes my breath away. I can hardly believe the three if us saw this phenomenon--but we did! All three of us were looking upward in the right direction, in the right place, at the right time! As soon as it disappeared, we swapped accounts of what we saw, and our descriptions were remarkably the same. Amazing! |
