metiroite search in northern california

[Daveroo]

a week or so..the liroid metiroite shower..i know i spelled that wrong..happened and it is or was a part of the tail of a comet,well there were wide spread reports of a sonic boom and bright lights in the sky...looked like a rocket they said.....they have confirmed the find of 2 small metiorite rocks allready and todat 5-3-12 NASA has a blimp flying the area searching for more evidence...pretty cool.....you hear on discovery channel and history channel of metiroites hitting earth millions of years ago and forming mother earth...yet we just had it happen..and it was and has been confirmed..

go to kcra3 sacramento news to see more video and stories on it

 

[paiken]

All of the meteor showers, including the Lyrids, are the cast off debris from comets. Occasionally bigger chunks manage to make it to the ground. I've seen estimates that on average, the earth picks up many tons of meteoric debris (meteors and dust) every year.