Monday, November 10, 2008

The meteor!


Stephen saw a realy cool thing recently, it happend on the 5th of this month ( last wednesday). We were at Steve's parents house and we heard Jeff and Cami's (thats my brother inlaw and his wife ) dog Annie barking outside. It was about 11:20 pm so Steve decided to go outside and see what Annie was barking at and tell her to stop. He looked in the direction of Annie's kennel to see what was going on , and heard deer running up the hill in the backyard so he knew that's what was upsetting Annie. As Steve was looking in that same direction he saw a flash of light shoot down from the sky at about an 80 degree angle. It started out white and then turned green, and just as it disapeared behind the hill in Steve's parents backyard, the sky lit up from the flash from when it hit ( kind of like when a camera flash goes off, but huge ). It was a Meteor, and It hit extremely close, It hit right in the very very nearby mountains! We wanted to go look for it but never got a chance. We think the odds of finding it are pretty low anyway, since its hard to tell exactly where it hit, and it may have not left a big mark where it landed. We will probably still go look for it , but don't realy count on finding it. Steve's dad has found a meteor though; he found it in a church parking lot! He had it looked at and tested and sure enough it is definetely a meteor. I think he found it quite a long time ago, I am not sure how long ago it was. Steve and I were noticing lots of meteor's flying through the sky that same night ( last wednesday) Steve saw that one fall, so it must have been an active night for meteor's!

6 comments:

Tom said...

That is very, very cool.

Lisa said...

AWESOME!!!

Anonymous said...

Wow, neat!

Michelle said...

You always have awesome stories. Thanks for sharing that. I would love to see something like that.

Warren said...

You should try to find it. That would be really cool to have.

Robin Holt said...

Yeah we are gonna go look for it when we get a chance.