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It zoomed across the East Coast night sky early Wednesday, a greenish-red fireball. An airplane pilot in Philadelphia called it ”the mother of all meteors.” A baker in Absecon, N.J., worried that it was a Scud missile. And then, it was gone.
A long-forgotten spacecraft? An unidentified flying object? Or just a less distinctive chunk of the 10 tons of debris that falls from the sky every day?
”Presumably, it was a shooting star,” said Thomas Hamilton, of the astronomy department at Columbia University. He said shooting stars crash to earth 150 times a year, but are rarely this bright.
