Green shooting stars?

Question

Has anyone in the past month or so seen what looks like bright green shooting stars? I have seen two of them in the past two weeks now. Im on the east coast, and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this.......during early morning hours. Between 2am and 5am EST. They seem like they are slower than regular shooting stars and a litttle bigger. How about it?

Answer 1

Yep. That means the meteors have a lot of copper in them. You can see green flame if you burn a copper wire. They look slower because they last longer, so they're still glowing after the atmosphere has slowed them down some.

Answer 2

Meteors can burn all sorts of colours depending on the mineral content of the rock and the atmospheric conditions. First answer is right. Most likely a meteor with high copper content. I've seen orange and white fiery ones before, even saw a pink shooting star once but that was more likely due to atmospheric conditions. Was a rural area during harvest, so there was lot of dust in the air. By the way, a 'meteor' only becomes a 'meteorite' if it actually hits the Earths surface.

Answer 3

what u saw was no illusion.

Now the meteors show more colours, mostly green. Taking the light pollution and the clouds into account, the rates should be much higher.

Answer 4

I drive over night on the west coast and have seen none.

Answer 5

Never heard of it but sounds kinda cool!

Answer 6

Sounds weird to me

Answer 7

dude where do you live? you might want to lay off the drugs man.

Answer 8

YOU sure they are not lights?