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This may be a picture of meteor hitting earth.
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What do you think? I don't know if it's real, but it's cool just to think it's possible.
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Anonymous
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It's possible.
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iceman
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Looks interesting, I wish the photo was better and bigger.
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matt
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It's possible, but alas for the photographer he will probably never know for sure. The "impactor" is certainly too small to be recovered.
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Cerberus
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It seems likely that eventually someone would take a photo of a meteor impact.
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Bill Grass
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I'm sure it's possible, but I'd say that it's more likely to be a reflection of some sort on the water.
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Yaquina
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Wow! Who knows for sure what this is? It would be cool if it really was a meteor impact, but know way really of confirming if it was or not.
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As I understand it, by the time any small meteorite reaches ground level then it's only moving slowly - not much more than terminal air velocity, and not fast enough to cause a spectacular explosion. Maybe 500kph or thereabouts.
The trip down through the atmosphere slows them down by friction - if it really were going at 30,000kph then it surely would have burned up high in the atmosphere.
Just my $0.02
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oToiosoiovoio
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Well,
Who can tell ? Hard to see in this picture. 
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Cerberus
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For all we know it could be a brick thrown by some kid!
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Thick_asa_Planck
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"For all we know it could be a brick thrown by some kid!" - Judging by the height and the trajectory of incoming object, i'd say that the kid would have to be a world discus champion, or about 500 ft tall!
It is a really interesting article and photo, and if it was a meteor, it would be one of the rarest photos ever taken, along with the photo of the ISS transiting the disk of Venus, when it was transiting the Sun!
http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/venustransit/08jun04o/Maruska1.jpg
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Tim2723
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Actually, in the photograph as presented, I see no evidence of a trajectory at all, just a dotted line drawn over the picture. The flash in the close up frame looks to me to be a reflection on the water rather than being near the post itself.
It would be facinating if this were a true photo though. I'd like to see the original, as the pic on the website has that typical fuzziness common to shots of Big Foot, Nessie, and flying saucers.
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Anonymous
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Something carrying enough kinetic energy to create a flash as large as the photo seems to show would have destroyed the lamp housing, the pole, and probably a good chunk of the dock as well. The flash is almost the same diameter as the pole is tall, 20 meters. Thats a good size explosion. Looks more like a piece of lint on the negative that got enlarged if you ask me.
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Bill Grass
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Hey, Rich! Good to see you again!
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P_Nut
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I dont believe it. Picture looks fake to me. And what are the odds of hitting the street lamp, and not the everything else around?
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Cerberus
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who says it hit the lamp? It looks to me like it hit the water behind the lamp post. Just a line of sight thing.
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square_peg
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The original photo can be seen here , though it's also quite small. You can make out the trajectory 'tube'. Looks like we'll have to let the experts sort this one out. Anyone hear about the later examination of the lamp post?
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StarWars
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Tom, thanks for the link..
After I enlarged the photo I could see the smoke trail.
Could it be debris from SST Columbia ... ??
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Anonymous
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Hey, Bill, been busy.
I blew up the pic in the GIMP. I wish the photo were higher resolution, but the "impact" is about 1 pixel from dead center, left to right. The only way to assess this is to see the negative. Of course we are assuming this was taken with a film camera. If the impactor landed in the water in the distance, the "splash" would be quite large. Surely somebody else would have reported the splash or maybe a sonic boom.
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Cerberus
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it could not have been moving super sonic. Have you ever heard of a purported sonic boom from a meteor? besides, it looks to me like the impact was about 50 yds or so out in the water.
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