not your ordinary falling star
I saw a falling star a litle while ago, about 05:40. I was sitting on
the porch, i guess looking East, which is intersting, because if the
Earth is rotating that direction, then this was falling in the same
direction the Earth turns, not against it. It was pobably just a moving
across the sky in a heading slightly north of East.
Regardless, it was the brightest falling star i've ever seen -- without a
doubt. And i've seen a lot of falling stars in my life -- i've gone out
and stared at the sky during many incarnations of both the Leonid and
Persiod meteor showers.
And what i saw just now was much bigger, much brighter, and different in
color. It had a distinct, greenish hue, at least sometimes. And it was
big. I couldn't see much of a tail, because it's pretty bright here, in
the city, but the body was quite bright, and... odd. Satellite
re-entering? Alien space craft? Sign that my not-so-random thoughts of
the moment have some potential?