Yup. I'm pretty sure it's a bolide aka fireball.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide#Bolide>
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/5/2012 8:28 AM, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
> It looks to me like you've caught a pretty good sized fireball
> breaking up. Nice photo!
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Joel Wilcox<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Exciting day yesterday as I started working my way through the last
>> three rolls of Kodachrome that came back from processing in Kansas over
>> a year ago. I'll eventually put together a "best of" effort gallery,
>> but I noticed a strange phenom in this one:
>>
>> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
>>
>> I had forgotten that any such thing was on this roll until I saw it
>> again. The falling light is not an artifact on this one particular
>> slide because I managed to catch it on two slides. It is obviously "out
>> there" because it is reflected in the water. It must be something akin
>> to a sun dog, but I've never seen anything like it before or since.
>>
>> Not as fun as a Moose-Mystery, but I'd appreciation a learned
>> explanation if anyone has one.
>>
>> Joel W.
>>
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