[meteorite-list] Different colors of meteors/shooting stars
James Masny
sciflyer25 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 00:38:50 EDT 2013
Good evening list. Sorry if this has been discussed before, but are
different colors of meteors streaking through the atmosphere
indicative of certain minerals burning up? And what color represents
what minerals? I remember the 2001 Leonids, and seeing so many
different colors - pink, blue, white, yellow, green, orange. The
other night, I was outside, and I caught 2 fireballs, 1 changed color
from yellow to red, another from white to yellow.
All the best
Jim
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