Meteor rain over US

[LQB]

On the local news weather forecast a few days ago, I noticed that the time-lapsed radar clearly showed several fireball trails over the SE US. The forecaster, of course, made no mention of it.

 

[edgitarra]

I was checking the site, the meteor rain is still on.

 

[Duke]

wow edgitarra! great pictures, I'm in Australia and looking at our rain radar everyday. Do you know if we are using the same technology to view rain and so forth? I was wondering if we would be able to pick up the same sort of images with our system here?

 

[MrEightFive]

Would be interesting to know altitude of these 'trails'. Seems that there is much activity in the atmosphere and we are not quite aware.

 

[edgitarra]

wow edgitarra! great pictures, I'm in Australia and looking at our rain radar everyday. Do you know if we are using the same technology to view rain and so forth? I was wondering if we would be able to pick up the same sort of images with our system here?

I don't really know, but if you send me a link with the rain radar in Australia can compare it.

 

[waverider 9]

Hi All!

I was contemplating some of the current fireballs falling over the US and after viewing some Youtube videos two stood out to illustrate my question they are. . .

_http://youtu.be/oo6Qf4nu7d4_ over Oxford County Maine

and
_http://youtu.be/qqqYKC6-rm8_ !!New Alert!! Chem-Bomb Dropped on Populated City (Somewhere in California)

My question is . . .there seems to be a fair amount of these fireballs that just appear to either move extremely slow or are nearly stationary and then at some point they explode without too much sound.

(Yes - and I know "Chem-bomb" whatever!)

Is our particular perception of these fireball events because these fireballs are free-falling nearly straight down and not following any of Newtons' gravity laws because of their aerodynamicity or specific composition of the fireball that makes it more buoyant in our atmosphere? or . . . possible 4d in 3d type event (we are observing a 4d event with our 3d eyes) so that the object can appear same size irregardless of where spatially it is (like a stretching rubber band getting larger the further away it gets from our view point - thus making it appear same size during its decent/ascent/parallelish trajectory)?

I am not a mathematician or a rocket genius but am curious if anyone on the forum could explain this type of phenomenon or point out some reading material that may explain this phenomena.

Thanks!

Jeffery

 

[Duke]

wow edgitarra! great pictures, I'm in Australia and looking at our rain radar everyday. Do you know if we are using the same technology to view rain and so forth? I was wondering if we would be able to pick up the same sort of images with our system here?

I don't really know, but if you send me a link with the rain radar in Australia can compare it.

Sorry it took so long after yor prompt reply here the link.... http://www.bom.gov.au/