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CCTV: December 06/08:The Colorado skies played host to a dazzling fireball event. The meteor blasted through the atmosphere, detonated and outshone the Moon by 100 times. It is therefore expected that there were many eyewitnesses, and the Cloudbait Observatory (5 km north of the town of Guffey, CO) is appealing to people to report their accounts of the fireball. Fortunately, the observatory managed More.. to capture an all-sky camera video of the early morning explosion.
The Colorado fireball comes shortly after a similar event over Canada on November 20th, where over two dozen meteorite fragments have been recovered from agricultural land. We wait in anticipation to see if this huge Colorado fireball produced any similar fragments, but eyewitness accounts will be critical to aid such a search

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That bright blue streak in our sky early yesterday morning could have been a meteor.

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La notte scorsa una palla di fuoco ha illuminato il cielo di Colorado Springs. Secondo quanto riferisce il sito della Nasa l'oggetto, presumibilmente un meteorite, entrando nell'atmosfera terrestre è esploso con una luminosità cento volte più forte di quella della Luna piena.
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Early this morning, a huge explosion lit up the Colorado skies. According to one observatory that videoed the event with its ever-watching all-sky camera, the fireball (or bolide) peak brightness (magnitude -18) exceeded the brightness of a full Moon 100 times. An awesome event. The Cloudbait Observatory, near Denver, is calling on eye-witnesses to submit their reports so possible meteorite fragments can be found on the ground.

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