The Tetons Meteor, A Near Miss
This is a short home movie from the Tetons
filmed in the summer of 1972. The meteor was moving north
over the Rocky Mountains from the U.S. Southwest to Canada on
August 10, and was filmed by a tourist at the Grand Teton
National Park in Wyoming with an 8-millimeter color movie camera
This meteor was supposed to have ended its
life in a Hiroshima-atomic bomb like blast, but it never hit the
ground. It continued to fly 58km above the ground and
grazed Earth's atmosphere for about 100 seconds, before skipping
out and going back into its orbit around the sun.
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