Re-Entering Chinese Rocket Booster Lights Up Western United States Skies

On Wednesday night, at around 9:30 p.m. Pacific time, a huge fireball lit up the sky from California to Utah. Moving eerily slowly, bits of it were seen to fall off like sparks as it made its way across the sky. Twitter lit up like the fireball itself at the time, and I was flooded with replies and queries. One of the first tweets I saw had one of the best videos of the event, taken by Matt Holt in Utah. Watch this: As soon as I saw this I knew it wasn't a meteor; that is, not a piece of asteroi...