A large meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Geminid meteor shower over Springville, Ala., Thursday night Dec. 13, 2012. A meteor exploded over Tucson, Arizona, Tuesday night with a loud boom — rattling the homes beneath — as stargazers got ready for what will be one of the best celestial shows of the year. “I [saw] this tremendous, white, bright light in the western sky,” Tony Kubrak told KGUN after the meteor shook his home. “It was just … it was absolutely enormous, I couldn’t believe it.” The meteor was caught from a distance on a car’s dash-mounted camera, which shows a white light flare in the sky before extinguishing about two seconds later. Read more http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/1...bright-moon-will-put-best-viewing-at-predawn/ [video=youtube;Yamg9mxg9Ik]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yamg9mxg9Ik[/video]
