I tend to agree with the sentiment of the first cut of this story, for lack of any other explanation, have to go with meteor or space junk for now but IMHO it does not look typical for that, which is somewhat interiging.
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"Meteor" explosion over Manawatu
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Re: "Meteor" explosion over Manawatu
I saw some interesting things looking frame by frame last night. There is some sort of fine leader that starts from right of screen and goes left, then the main flash occures but not at the leading point of the leader. The second flash does seem to start slightly lower/right of the initial one on very close inspection, would could point to two separate solid objects exploding.
However am worried that the video compression may have a reverse masking effect, the content of following frames can contaminate the prior frames, due to how the compression works. This could mean what I am seeing is not real data, only compression artefacts.
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However am worried that the video compression may have a reverse masking effect, the content of following frames can contaminate the prior frames, due to how the compression works. This could mean what I am seeing is not real data, only compression artefacts.
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Interesting, fireballsnz have not posted anything since they tweeted they were aware of this event and were checking their data to see if it was a meteor. There was no meteor matching time and location in their daily summary.
One explanation is that they rely on a camera network and it was just too cloudy to detect this one.
However, IMHO it just does not look like a meteor or space-junk re-entry, if had to guess something, based on the video, it looks more like some sort of cloud scale electrostatic discharge, i.e. lightning. However it does not appear that the standard conditions to expect lightning/thunderstorms were present. Are there rarer forms of lightning that can occur in isolation?
The more fanciful avenue is that someone knows what this was and is not telling.
One explanation is that they rely on a camera network and it was just too cloudy to detect this one.
However, IMHO it just does not look like a meteor or space-junk re-entry, if had to guess something, based on the video, it looks more like some sort of cloud scale electrostatic discharge, i.e. lightning. However it does not appear that the standard conditions to expect lightning/thunderstorms were present. Are there rarer forms of lightning that can occur in isolation?
The more fanciful avenue is that someone knows what this was and is not telling.