Live_your_lives@lemmy.world
on 09 Jun 15:36
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“Fireballs and bolides are astronomical terms for exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area. … A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen at the observer’s zenith. … Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides although the terms fireballs and bolides are often used interchangeably.”
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Where’s ufo? /s
What about auroras? Not /s
Any of the non-terminal nodes
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What if Alexander Gerst is waving a flashlight at me from his boat in a downward u motion?
This flowchart is missing “Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket, and refracted light from Venus”
WOW, you learn something new every day, who thought that this thing that burns your retina or cook english turists in the Beach, is the Sun?
Is “fireball” a technical term here? Because I only know the wizard kind and they do end in a dramatic explosion.
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Oh wow, impressive!
“Fireballs and bolides are astronomical terms for exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area. … A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen at the observer’s zenith. … Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides although the terms fireballs and bolides are often used interchangeably.”
cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/intro.html
Thanks!
most of these are aliens actually
SNe?
Not really big, slowly blinking and regularly burning my retinas
What if it’s big and moving? And burning my retina too ?