Ooh, I just saw a really big “shooting star” low in the NW sky. (just before 6am Eastern)<\/p>\n
DH was getting set to leave to go to Knoxville for a few appointments today. It’s early, still dark, and I was awake in the family room, updating the windows software on my new laptop, so I decided to go out with him to see him leave, and comment with him on how it felt outside, temps being lower the last day or so.<\/p>\n
We stood there on the front sidewalk and it was pleasantly chilly. I was turning to the left and scanning the sky for star clarity (I love it when it’s cold and clear!) when my eye caught something new moving, and I instantly was able to see it and enjoyed a very large fall of something from fairly low in the sky, rapidly moving downward, it was very quick, but very visible, quite large for a “shooting star” and very classic in how it looked –“shot” downward as a “shooting star.”<\/p>\n
It was a very satisfying experience for me. I love watching meteor showers and the last time there was a decent one around we had overcast skies. So this set things to right for me. A surprise large one. (Whatever it was doesn’t matter, it was just something falling through the atmosphere, of course, not “really” a “shooting star” … that’s just our romaticized way of speaking about things falling into our air space, as long as it’s not right on our heads.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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