Well, if so, that would be a mighty MIGHTY steep mountain. The only mountains I know of in the US that are that steep would be the Grand Tetons, and I haven't heard anything about fires there.
It moved across the sky. From her single point, it moved quite a bit. It maintained its shape as it moved. It took forever to fall, so that tell me it was very large and very far away. It was not a stationary point on a mountain.
My point exactly. A simple, small bolide would streak across in seconds and vaporize rapidly. What this DID remind me of was the Space Shuttle disaster that burned up on reentry a few years ago. The heat shielding prevented some of the debris from burning up immediately, and it seemed (from the ground) to slowly come apart for many minutes, although it was traveling at whatever reentry speed is, pretty fast.
Well, if so, that would be a mighty MIGHTY steep mountain. The only mountains I know of in the US that are that steep would be the Grand Tetons, and I haven't heard anything about fires there.
It moved across the sky. From her single point, it moved quite a bit. It maintained its shape as it moved. It took forever to fall, so that tell me it was very large and very far away. It was not a stationary point on a mountain.
My point exactly. A simple, small bolide would streak across in seconds and vaporize rapidly. What this DID remind me of was the Space Shuttle disaster that burned up on reentry a few years ago. The heat shielding prevented some of the debris from burning up immediately, and it seemed (from the ground) to slowly come apart for many minutes, although it was traveling at whatever reentry speed is, pretty fast.