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not clear where it hit, although i think i see it.....
very cool
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Whoa...
A meteorite hit a lamp post? When? That's an awesome picture!
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Originally posted by Super Nova:
not clear where it hit, although i think i see it.....
A dark trail with a spark and white smoke and you can't see it?
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An amazing photo. But I read that the minds of MIT decided it wasn't a meteor, but rather a single drop of water forming a "primary bow" (as opposed to a rainbow).
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Who took this phenomenal picture?
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Originally posted by voyageur:
An amazing photo. But I read that the minds of MIT decided it wasn't a meteor, but rather a single drop of water forming a "primary bow" (as opposed to a rainbow).
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Can't they just go have a look at the post to see if a big dent is on it?
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I guess Australia was too far to travel from Cambridge. 
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Originally posted by voyageur:
I guess Australia was too far to travel from Cambridge.
Send a dingo to have a peek. 
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Originally posted by voyageur:
An amazing photo. But I read that the minds of MIT decided it wasn't a meteor, but rather a single drop of water forming a "primary bow" (as opposed to a rainbow).
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Okay, I read and sort of understood that page (my head feels like someone tried to fit a watermelon inside it now as a result), but I still don't get how this primary bow can be the cause of what unmistakably looks like something falling from the sky, breaking off the top of a lamppost?!? 
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Originally posted by Oisín:
Okay, I read and sort of understood that page (my head feels like someone tried to fit a watermelon inside it now as a result), but I still don't get how this primary bow can be the cause of what unmistakably looks like something falling from the sky, breaking off the top of a lamppost?!?
Because if you click the link on that explanation page, you'll see that he was talking about a completely different Picture of the Day:
As for the original photo, I'm a little unsure about the meteorite theory, considering that they apparently looked at the lamppost afterwards, and it was undamaged.
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Originally posted by voyageur:
An amazing photo. But I read that the minds of MIT decided it wasn't a meteor, but rather a single drop of water forming a "primary bow" (as opposed to a rainbow).
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Except that the before and after frame from the camera is crystal clear, no water. Plus, where'd the trail come from?
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it's accepted that anywhere from 1-10 tons of meteorites hit the earth every day...
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Originally posted by brickcam:
it's accepted that anywhere from 1-10 tons of meteorites hit the earth every day...
oh really?
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hey, that's 5 tons right there! Maybe more.... my volvo weighs a ton and a half and it's all full of air.
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I'd hit it!
That would be Twice!
Where's that pic...
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
Except that the before and after frame from the camera is crystal clear, no water. Plus, where'd the trail come from?
Yeah, you're right. Wrong picture.
Who lives in Sydney here? PG? Cipher13? Time to check the lamppost for dents as SWG suggested.
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Originally posted by voyageur:
Who lives in Sydney here? PG? Cipher13? Time to check the lamppost for dents as SWG suggested.
And then throw some shrimps on the barby.
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Originally posted by voyageur:
Yeah, you're right. Wrong picture.
Ah, then I understand again. I had seen that other picture with the glass bow, but I thought you just linked to his page because it had an explanation of the primary bow in there, and you were referring to that unrelated to the glass bow picture...
I'm not always as think as I dumb I am... wait...
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