 Re: Shooting Stars
I know nothing about astronomy or shooting stars but what I saw this morning amazed me. I was returning from a night shift to my home near Fareham, Hampshire when quite low in the sky in front of me I saw what I can only think is a shooting star. It seemed so near and so low that for the second that I saw it I thought it was a meteor about to hit the earth, indeed I flinched at the wheel and nearly drove into a parked car. It had an obvious larger bright head with a long trailing tail and disappeared before it seemed to come to earth. This was about 6:15 or 6:20 am. I remember seeing a shooting star as a child and once as a young adult. These were on very dark clear nights and seemed much higher in the air and I can't remember them having a head and tail, just a long white bright light that shot high across the night sky. The one I saw this morning was amazing and I just had to come on a site to tell someone it was so exciting. Perhaps I'm easily pleased!! Sandi |