# Meteor just hit here in SE Michigan. Woah.

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**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-just-hit-here-in-se-michigan-woah/806791 "2018-01-17T02:09:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-just-hit-here-in-se-michigan-woah/806791/61 "2018-01-19T04:51:13Z")

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Meteors in general aren’t particularly rare, but most of them aren’t very bright. Was it as bright as Venus, or as bright as a very bright star, or a typical star, or a very dim star?

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-just-hit-here-in-se-michigan-woah/806791/62 "2018-01-19T05:50:04Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Meteors in general aren’t particularly rare, but most of them aren’t very bright. Was it as bright as Venus, or as bright as a very bright star, or a typical star, or a very dim star?

I’d say a very bright star or Venus, but don’t specifically remember. It caught my eye mostly because it was in my line of vision while I drove, and it was in a part of the sky that was tainted with light pollution from the nearby town. There were no other stars visible in that part of the sky.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-just-hit-here-in-se-michigan-woah/806791/63 "2018-01-19T13:42:25Z")

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Here’s some [info](http://www.ajc.com/news/national/another-meteor-reports-come-bright-flash-across-ohio-indiana-night-sky/L3vENpfoadnq47brYAtRVK/) about the Wednesday night meteor.

Note that the “before midnight Thursday” actually means just before midnight _on_ Wednesday.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-just-hit-here-in-se-michigan-woah/806791/64 "2018-01-19T22:20:03Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> Here is an astronomer guessing “around Mount Clemens”, which is far east of my guess … closer to Lansing than Mount Clemens.

The meteorites [are](http://www.wzzm13.com/news/local/michigan/meteorite-hunter-finds-3-rocks-from-michigan-meteor-in-hamburg-township/509477448) [in](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/meteorite-hunters-find-fragments-michigan-meteor-52472493) [Hamburg](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/01/19/michigan-meteor-flint-museum/1047562001/) [Township](http://www.livingstondaily.com/story/news/2018/01/17/nasa-pieces-asteroid-fell-along-m-36-hamburg-township/1040832001/), around 50 miles west of Mount Clemens in the direction of Lansing. So ha, and ha. Found by [Robert Ward](http://robertwardmeteorites.com/) ([who once shared a much more stressful meteorite expedition](https://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com/msg95697.html).)

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