Comes a river running wild that will create an empire for you
From an apparent radiant in Arcturus, which made it either a straggler of the Boötids or just passing through, just as ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch and I were getting up from our summer-hazed star-watching under the three-quarter moon, we saw a slow fireball of a meteor streak south and westward. All we had seen until then were the familiar blinks of planes and what we less happily took for satellites crawling steadily across the body of Ursa Major. We lay on the granite blocks that were installed six or seven years ago in commemoration of the eighteenth-century farm that became first a field of victory gardens and then the public park where I would spend my childhood sledding in winter and setting off model rockets in summer. The jeweled string of the Boston skyline has built itself considerably up since then. I used to dream of finding a meteorite in a field. It seemed statistically not impossible.
spatch and I were getting up from our summer-hazed star-watching under the three-quarter moon, we saw a slow fireball of a meteor streak south and westward. All we had seen until then were the familiar blinks of planes and what we less happily took for satellites crawling steadily across the body of Ursa Major. We lay on the granite blocks that were installed six or seven years ago in commemoration of the eighteenth-century farm that became first a field of victory gardens and then the public park where I would spend my childhood sledding in winter and setting off model rockets in summer. The jeweled string of the Boston skyline has built itself considerably up since then. I used to dream of finding a meteorite in a field. It seemed statistically not impossible.
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Hooray for seeing a stray meteor!
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It does.
Hooray for seeing a stray meteor!
I thought we were between showers and would just see stars and there it was, burning. They make me so happy.
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The very first shooting star I ever saw was a fireball, which meant that that was what I expected all shooting stars to be. Imagine my surprise to discover that it was overwhelmingly more common for them to look star-sized, not softball-sized, as they streaked silently across the sky.
If anyone of my acquaintance is going to find a meteorite, it will be you! It definitely fits with your storyline.
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It was! A total surprise. I am taking the gifts I can get right now.
The very first shooting star I ever saw was a fireball, which meant that that was what I expected all shooting stars to be. Imagine my surprise to discover that it was overwhelmingly more common for them to look star-sized, not softball-sized, as they streaked silently across the sky.
I still love the fact that the other kind was your first. Maybe they all should be.
If anyone of my acquaintance is going to find a meteorite, it will be you! It definitely fits with your storyline.
Thank you for your confidence! I hope so.
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It was an unexpected joy!
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It happened to characters in books I read all the time!
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Another find from WERS!