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Bright Pink Meteor and the Neighborhood Animals Acting Crazy! O.o
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OP may have technically saw a Red one ... but a weak one. An active atmosphere may have muted the color also. OP - were the star actively "twinkling"?
Quoting: OnTheFence Hmm... Sounds like a plausible possibility! I'm gonna have to research 'active atmosphere' now. :) Curious! And YES! They were twinkling like crazy! All kinds of rainbow colors going on with Capella, Arcturus, and Vega tonight. The atmosphere is in layers. I really don't remember what causes the layers to be active more than at other times. But when they are shifting, you get the twinkling effect of the stars. The layers are just reflecting (or is it refracting) the light from the stars ... hence the twinkling effect. I'm only guessing that an active atmosphere may also have altered the color of the fireball you saw. That you saw a red one and not really a pink one. I'm only guessing.
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