[meteorite-list] Bright Bolide Lights Up Night Over Over WashingtonState

[Raremeteorites]

Hopefully no pieces of this meteor actually reached the ground otherwise 
they might be too tempting to some to break the law. They have to stay in 
place since it is illegal to pick them up on public land in this progressive 
state.  The State of Washington even had the nerve to charge us a ~8.9% 
use-tax on our meteorite collection.  Now they are charging gun owners an 
annual $25.00 a gun and $.05  a bullet tax.  This will amount to thousands a 
dollar a year for some of my friends who are well-stocked.  Many have 
already relocated to here in Nevada where they can actually take their 
4-wheel drive vehicles off-road and not have to pay a fee to get stuck in a 
tiny Washington state off-road vehicle park.

And people asked why I abandoned this "beautiful" state permanently.

No thanks, I will take the wonderful Mojave Desert here in the Wild West any 
day.

Adam






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From: "Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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>
> http://www.theprovince.com/life/exploding+meteor+bright+bolide+lights+friday+night+from+chilliwack+nanaimo+seattle/11567266/story.html
>
> Exploding meteor: Bright bolide lights up Friday night sky from Chilliwack 
> to Nanaimo to Seattle
> By PATRICK JOHNSTON
> The Province
> December 5, 2015
>
> Tina Robertson was just trying to catch a stray cat out in front of her
> property when she heard it.
>
> "It freaked me right out," she said.
>
> Then she looked up to see a "big ball of fire."
>
> "It was moving like hell," she said. "It was big, but not as big
> as that one in Russia."
>
> What she and other witnesses as far afield as Seattle and Nanaimo seem
> to have seen around 6:50 p.m. Friday was a type of meteor known as a 
> bolide.
> Bolides are as bright as a full moon; they're a meteor that doesn't
> just burn up as it travels through the atmosphere, it explodes.
>
> (Hat tip to Seattle Twitter user Reb Roush for pointing us all to the
> term.)
>
> Robertson's partner Wilf Krickhan was loading up firewood in a bobcat
> behind the house when he saw the blue-green bolide flash across the sky.
>
> "It had an orange streak behind it," he said.
>
> The couple live on a farm about 25 kilometres up Chilliwack Lake Road.
> From their vantage point, it looked like the meteor flashed out up the
> slopes of Mount McGuire, in the direction of Vedder Road and the site
> of the former CFB Chilliwack.
>
> Friday was the start of the Geminid meteor shower, so keep your eyes 
> peeled
> at the sky for the next two weeks. The peak period will be on Dec. 13
> and 14.
>
> People in Seattle saw a bright streak in the sky around the same time,
> and so did Andrew Arthur, who was driving south through Ladner on Highway
> 17A.
>
> "It was close: cloud level almost. Very bright," he told The Province
> via Twitter. "Burned up as it travelled southwest."
>
> Across the Georgia Strait, Marc Kurtagic was out for an evening stroll
> when he spotted the bright light off in the eastern sky.
>
> "It looked like a distant star at first, then became brighter, then
> produced a green glow with a bright tail," he said over Twitter. Like
> Robertson, he was reminded of the famous 2013 bolide, captured by video
> in Chelyabinsk, Russia, but agreed it was much smaller.
>
> "What caught me with surprise was the speed of it. It looked like a
> plane approaching at night at first," he said.
>
> As for Robertson's stray cat, she still hasn't caught it. She and Krickhan
> said people keep dropping off unwanted pets up their way and they wish
> the practice would stop. "It's heartbreaking," she said.
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