May, 2008

We were at Ramanchery on May 3rd,Saturday... There were some ten of us including me,Dr Suresh and a few TAN ASTRO members... It was a good night for observation with very clear skies.... At around 11 o clock in the South Western sky we saw a very strange occurence... It was like a meteor shower but none of us had ever seen something like that before... There were a number of Fireballs or Meteors or Debris or whatever you call it coming from the sky... They had a greenish-yellowish-orangish tinge and were obviously in the process of a burn out.... There were atleast ten of these objects visible to the naked eye and they were all in one group with a very small spacing in between them... Their tails were very long...  read more »

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