I'm surprised some people aren't praying for it. I mean, what better way to assuage our collective conscience than by rendering runaway climate change obsolete?

I saw an unusual meteor back on April 4th. It was unusual in that the sighting lasted about 3 minutes, until the object dropped below the horizon. This was 2 hours after the fireball over NC, which I found out about as soon as I started searching for info on what I'd just seen. It wasn't very big in the sky, it was much like the scale of Venus, and it was an intense silvery colour, with a short tail to match. It looked a bit like I'd expect a comet to look, but it was so bright. It was just after 9am, and I saw this in full sunlight.

I have to admit, I felt a chill of real fear, pondering the possibility that this could be the one. I didn't expect it to be, but there was no way to tell it wasn't, either. It was big enough to be seen approaching Earth, and its angle changed rapidly enough to suggest it was fairly close, but I don't know when or if it reached us. I figure it must have been made of the same material that fireballed over NC that morning, but I haven't found out any more about it since.

It was a moving experience in any case. It was a little difficult to grasp the reality of what I was seeing, the gravity of the situation, but it was beautiful, too. I really wonder where that rock ended up.