Hi cadarado,
Great find! I'm not sure what that is! It is now a candidate for the second brightest meteor even seen by the Night Sky Live project!
On the "yes, it is a meteor" side, the trail is smooth and shows no lights blinking like an airplane. Also, it appears to fade out on the southern end.
On the "no, it is not a meteor" side, the trail appears to start (end?) abruptly at the northern end. The trail does not obviously point to Gemini -- it might even be too early for Gemini to be in the sky. It could still be and "Earth-grazer" if Gemini is on the horizon, though -- I'd have to check.
BTW, the way to display an image from the NSL site is to put the image tags directly before and after the JPG image code like this:
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[img]http://nightskylive.net/wo/wo041212/wo041212ut030120a.jpg[/img]
That is how I am displaying the image you found again:
- RJN