Meteor over San Francisco

[NickRose2006]

Me and my brother were out looking at the moon halo last night and when he had the camera pointing at the moon I saw a meteor go from west to east and breakup into many small pieces. It lasted maybe 2-3sec. and it was a nice orange color. The viewing location was Millbrea, California and it was around 9:16pm(Pacific Time). We did not get a picture of the meteor but I had my brother take a picture of what must be the dust from the meteor. I'll upload the photo later on in the day.

[NickRose2006]

Here are two pictures my brother took. The first picture is a close up and the second shows the path of the meteor. The dust/cloud that I have highlighted probably has nothing to do with the meteor but I thought I would show it anyway.

What do you guys think?

[Daniel-K]

i would say that the "dust cloud" was too low to be of any relavance to a meteor. just beacuse if a meteor was that low i would be running! lol

[Tinker1947]

Could also have been a bit of space junk.....

[laser_jock99]

I have seen the odd bright meteor which leaves a glowing trail- sometimes visible for a few minutes. I guess it is possible to leave a 'cloud' at the point of explosion but glowing trails are more common.