Missed opportunity - meteor showers

[bd32322]

Apparently there was a meteor shower visible towards the east from 10 pm to 5 am saturday night / sunday morning. If only i had known in advance, i would have flown to see it in the relative darkness up high and near the coast.

Hope someone got to see it. Rate was supposed to be 25 an hour or so ...

[flight2000]

No thanks! Would rather watch from the ground than risk getting hit in the air by some space junk that is crashing towards the earth at a high rate of speed.

Another pilot reported last week on the AOPA forum that he was temporarily blinded by the one in California. It was that bright...and he wasn't even looking for one...just coming back from a night time dinner run.

Brian

[bd32322]

No thanks! Would rather watch from the ground than risk getting hit in the air by some space junk that is crashing towards the earth at a high rate of speed.

Another pilot reported last week on the AOPA forum that he was temporarily blinded by the one in California. It was that bright...and he wasn't even looking for one...just coming back from a night time dinner run.

Brian

it wasnt happening directly over the east coast and at our altitudes the chances of getting hit in the head with one of these on the ground is the same as the meteor hitting the plane. Most, if not all are burning up in the upper atmosphere

[aviatoreb]

it wasnt happening directly over the east coast and at our altitudes the chances of getting hit in the head with one of these on the ground is the same as the meteor hitting the plane. Most, if not all are burning up in the upper atmosphere

Forget meteors. I am afraid of coconuts. Some statistics claim that every year 150 people are killed by coconuts falling on their heads:

http://tanzaniathisweek.blogspot.com/2009/08/death-by-coconut.html

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2405/are-150-people-killed-each-year-by-falling-coconuts

Never mind that I live 15 mi from Canada and there are very few coconut bearing trees in my town.

[flight2000]

it wasnt happening directly over the east coast and at our altitudes the chances of getting hit in the head with one of these on the ground is the same as the meteor hitting the plane. Most, if not all are burning up in the upper atmosphere

Understood, but the ones in California were pretty large and came close enough to his aircraft that I would rather not tempt fate. I'll stay on the ground if they are forecast.

Brian

[bd32322]

Forget meteors. I am afraid of coconuts. Some statistics claim that every year 150 people are killed by coconuts falling on their heads:

http://tanzaniathisweek.blogspot.com/2009/08/death-by-coconut.html

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2405/are-150-people-killed-each-year-by-falling-coconuts

Never mind that I live 15 mi from Canada and there are very few coconut bearing trees in my town.

Lol. Have thought of the same thing roaming around in Florida

[bd32322]

Understood, but the ones in California were pretty large and came close enough to his aircraft that I would rather not tempt fate. I'll stay on the ground if they are forecast.

Brian

Sorry for belaboring the point.. But its just an illusion, bright objects appear closer.

However, i do acknowledge i do not know how close that particular meteor was to the aircraft.. Could have been close indeed..