Just before 8 p.m. last night, people all over the East Coast reported seeing a meteor in the sky. And a woman in Maryland appeared to get footage of it on her security camera: Kim Fox, from Thurmont, Md., sent the video to WUSA9, which has another video of the apparent meteor. The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of the meteor, and it thinks it was a fireball:For those not…
Photo of a Leonid meteor by Navicore, via cc. Last Thursday, it seems a fireball lit up the sky over Washington. I’m sorry to say we missed it at DCist HQ and only heard about it later via the Washington Post, which reported that sky-gazers in D.C. — and as far away as New York and West Virginia — saw an incredibly bright greenish-yellowish streak across the sky at about 9:55 p.m. The American…
