Fireballs and meteors

As forecasters predicted, the Leonid meteor shower peaked during the late hours of Nov. 17th, favoring sky watchers in Asia with an outburst of 100+ meteors per hour. Just as the outburst was dying down, an even bigger event took place over the western USA. Something hit Earth's atmosphere and exploded with an energy equivalent of 0.5 to 1 kiloton of TNT. Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and elsewhere say the fireball "turned night into day" and "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. Researchers who are analyzing infrasound recordings of the blast say the fireball was not a Leonid. It was probably a small asteroid, now scattered in fragments across the countryside. Efforts are underway to measure the trajectory of the asteroid and guide meteorite recovery efforts.
Källa: Space Weather
Grattis ni i västra USA, vi fick inte se nånting. Inte ens på teven för där finns det bara plats för bönder som söker fruar, politiker som söker övertyga oss om deras förträfflighet och sånglärkor som söker uppmärksamhet.
Det är inte Utahn att man blir avundsjuk på er.