(NORTH PLATTE POST)- Have you ever witnessed a meteor impact or a meteor shower? Meteor showers are a beautiful sight and sometimes dangerous. I like to think of Meteorites as little gifts from beyond, not like they are anything special that grant you powers like in various fiction stories but very cool and rare none the less.
Meteorites have been known to be mischievous as well. How would you like to be napping peacefully in your living room when suddenly you wake up to soil yourself because of the loud bang, followed by a striking pain on your hip, and a rather odd hole in the ceiling.
That is the story of the poor womanknown to be the first human to be struck by an extraterrestrial object. (Ironically enough she lived across the street from a drive in called “Comet Drive-in” Classic!) She at first probably thought kids were playing base ball in the street, hitting a home-run slugger straight into her house. She would have enjoyed that I’m sure.
Meteorites vary in size, and often are sent pummeling down to earth from breaking off of an asteroid after colliding with something in space causing distress in other galaxies far…far away.
Wednesday June 20th sightings occurred by multiple sources in Colorado of meteor sightings by residents and some firefighters working to control the blaze 2 miles west of Colorado Springs.
Peter Palmer the Chaffee County Sheriff said his office receive many calls regarding sightings, one call claims a meteorite landed in a wooded area north of Buena Vista though the report could not be confirmed. A heavy air tanker working to put out flames claims they saw something in the skies. Causing worry to the firefighters, they landed to take a time-out because that’s the last thing we want during multiple wild-fires, is planes being struck down by flaming rocks. No doubt at first glance an event such as that would be claimed to be some sort of terrorist attack. You never know.
It may be a possibility that since heat rises, and the wildfires create a lot of heat some tree branch particles or flammable things began to burn, then as weight reduces from the solids they are lifted into the air in a flaming heap. Much like when you throw a bunch of leaves or paper onto a fire and you sit back and proudly watch the flame grow while ash is spewed into the air, before your parents yell at you telling you never to do that again because all it does is create smoke…
This reminds me…PLEASE if you are a cigarette smoker be SURE to put your cigarette completely out before you dispose of it in any way. Conditions have been so dry that simply one cherry of a cigarette could ignite a small flame to a nearby field…then wind will build up the small flame making it spread and grow followed by a huge fire that forces many to evacuate due to large amounts of smoke. Not to mention the fire that may burn down houses. Wild fires are no joke.
If Meteorites interest you, check out this video:
Also look over this website that has a map of meteorite sightings all over the world, there are a few in Colorodo. Next time you step outside keep an eye on the skies for bright moving flame balls!