Start calling Pluto an asteroid and it may act like one. . .

[twilyght_zone]

this however was not Pluto (good thing too)

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Hey wcg , what's up with this?  You know your my go to guy on these things!

http://www.visualastronomy.com/2008/11/huge-meteor-over-canada.html

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[wcg]

Big rock, moving through space, found itself on a collision course with Earth. It came in at something like 30 km/sec. Earth won.

It wasn't a terribly big rock, or it would have been caught by the early warning radar. But it was big enough to be seen from hundreds of miles in all directions as it burned up.

[twilyght_zone]

Thanks. Glad to hear Earth won again, she is a trooper. Isn't the early warning radar system set up to catch things like airplanes and missiles? So, what I'm really asking is actually was the "big" rock smaller than a missile?

[wcg]

Different early warning systems. The early warning system for airplanes and missiles looks much lower. The space early warning system looks for meteoroids approaching from beyond the distance of the Moon.

[twilyght_zone]

ah, thank you for clearing that up for me.

[helen99]

That's a beautiful shot of that meteor. Lucky that someone happened to be videotaping just when it fell.

[twilyght_zone]

This was captured by many - some were security cameras for stores and there was at least one police car camera that caught it, there are lots on utube.