Posted by Give-A-Little-Get-A-Little, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 26, 2012 at 10:23 am

Hopefully NASA will make any pictures that they receive from the public available to the public. That would only be fair.

Posted by musical, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Apr 26, 2012 at 6:17 pm

Here's a recent meteor photo NASA received from the public and made public:

Web Link

Something new and interesting there every day.

Even though everyone seems to carry a camera now, I'll be surprised if any photos of the daylight sonic boom meteor exist, as few people would react quickly enough. Best bet would be surveillance or traffic video that has some sky in the field of view.

Most meteors are not very photogenic. Meteor showers are fun to watch however, if only a nearby dark-sky location were available. All our parks close at sunset.

Posted by Carlito waysman, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Apr 26, 2012 at 6:19 pm

>Through more photos and videos of the meteor, NASA and SETI >researchers hope to analyze the trajectory of the meteor as it >fell, lending insight into its orbit in space and where fragments >of it may have landed on Earth.

NASA of all people, you thought they would be able to see beforehand whenever a phenomena like this happens and let the pupulation know. The dinosaurs did not miss a thing by not living in a "modern and highly civilized" times, with everyone of us loaded with the latest and greatest electronic gizmos. And yet, like the dinosaurs we did not see this one coming until it was flying over our heads.

We got lucky this time, what about the next one which can be bigger or lets say a lot bigger?