Exploding Meteor, or Laser Target?

Watching it from the beginning several times, there are lots of "shooting stars".

:37 looks to me like a collision. There's a smaller one at the very beginning.

From NASA

Meteors and Meteorites
While traveling through space, asteroids sometimes collide with each other and break up into smaller fragments. Comets shed dust as they roam the solar system. These 'break ups' result in numerous small particles and fragments, called meteoroids, which orbit the sun.
Most meteoroids are small and rocky. When one approaches Earth, it burns up as it goes through Earth's atmosphere. Thus a meteor, or shooting star, is formed.
Fireballs are larger meteoroids, roughly ranging in size anywhere from a basketball to a Volkswagen. They also make very impressive sky displays as they break into fragments and burn up in their passage through Earth's atmosphere.

I managed to freeze frame on the white flash,and it looks like a disc,edge on,with a

slight angle upward from the right.

The streak in invisible until it impacts the target,implying that it could be a high

powered laser, because the initial flash is very high energy,white hot,and the

subsequent break up of the object is much cooler,orange/yellow.

It does not appear to be an explosion from within the object ,as it is oriented in two directions only.

The yellow explosion afterward is omnidirectional until it separates into two

pieces,and they each leave a debris trail.

A smaller version can be seen at the :16 mark.

Check this out. I would have preferred some Pink Floyd with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtZKDIWkGR4

The time lapse makes it look like the meteorite is moving a lot faster.

This is another WTF image with insufficient information to clearly identify what is being seen.

The background motion implies that this is a time lapse movie with each frame a long enough period of time that the Milky Way is visible and drifting in the image from the Earth's rotation. The early streaks seem more like a meteor shower set of streaks far from the radiant point. I originally thought that the mystery streak and eruption was a bolide. However, the debris field appears to last too long in this time lapse image and it seems to be effected by the vector of the Earth's gravity near the camera.

Here is a You Tube link to it Can be played in HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDbRbxW6BB0&list=UUTkuP82o_NzJSXFYa-a-LHw&index=1

Still pretty hard to make out if it's a collision or just a meteor exploding.

Good find.

I don't think it's a collision, but this may help explain the explosion. The thinner atmosphere on Mars likely allows more meteorites to reach the surface without burning up, while on earth, if the intense heat hit a methane pocket...Poof!

http://phys.org/news/2012-05-mars-methane-linked-meteorites.html

Collision with what? A meteor hitting anything in the atmosphere seems extremely unlikely. I believe what we are seeing is a meteor that is almost completely vaporized in the atmosphere. The "smoke" is what is left that didn't get vaporized and is being dispersed by high winds in the upper atmosphere. Here are some frozen stills from the video:

Notice that the lenticular shape in frame 1 is nearly centered over a locally high tree branch, as is everything else that follows. This was not a streak coming in from one side or the other.

Most likely a bolide, (an exploding meteor) but unusual in that part of the breakup heads almost backwards from the initial L > R meteor direction.

Possibly a bag of excrement from the space station hitting the atmosphere...

The Empire Strikes Back.

Who needs theories?

We can go to the breakroom and talk about the facts that we know to be true.

Wanna talk about Holder's past, Hillary's, Bill Ayers', Obama's? I'll be happy to talk about what is indisputable. Please.

Lets Roll.

Beware the ZPM!

(Zenith Point Meteor)

or better put, the Zenith Point Meteorite!

Good point, it is natural for the eye to assume that the path is perpendicular to the line of sight, whereas it is most likely there is a sizeable component toward or away from the camera. In this case, it looks like we are almost end on and the object broke into two parts, which is why it looks like one part went in the reverse direction. GA.