Gosh! I can't seem to get that thing out of my mind!
It was such an vivid startling sight it caused me to muse over what the ancients must have thought when viewing the same phenomenon. That it would have been taken as an omen - no doubt. Did it portend great disasters or miracles to come? Probably - both.
In these times, we are lucky, I guess. More research via Google , newspaper accounts and NASA reports sure gave me something else to think about. One graphic, especially, showing the proliferation of worldwide satellites ( all due to fall back to earth sooner or later ) made me incredulous.
NASA reported the fireball we witnessed was probably a basketball sized asteroid. They also reported on September 23 ( give or take a day ), a "huge defunct" satellite will fall to earth and should break apart on entering earth's atmosphere. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN reassures us that there is only a 1 in 3,200 chance of being hit by any debris, however. How do you like those odds?
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