Hi List; Any thoughts on this one? https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6638
Regards, Art On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 10:33 AM Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > > Thank you. > I was just at the camera site in Tucson. Yes the azimuth does match up with > the Mexico trajectory. > Michael Farmer > > > Sent from Smallbiz Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Saturday, October 16, 2021, 5:50 PM, Eric Rasmussen > <ericrasmus...@cox.net> wrote: > > Here is what I was able to find from Dr. Fries information: > > > > An image from the GOES 16 GLM which shows the bolide over Mexico. > Brief animation from NOAA weather radar from the KEPZ radar El Paso, NM. It > shows the rapidly spreading circular feature Dr. Fries describes. > > > > Eric > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > > > From: Michael Farmer via Meteorite-list > Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2021 2:07 PM > To: Fries, Marc D. (JSC-XI211); meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Daytime fireball 16 Oct 2021 > > > > The video form Tucson should make a mexico landing impossible. The fixed > camera is pointing south east and angled north east. The rock comes from the > right and crosses the rincón mountains. How is a Mexico trajectory possible? > Only possible direction based on that camera view is north to north east. > > Michael Farmer > > > > Sent from Smallbiz Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > On Saturday, October 16, 2021, 10:49 AM, Fries, Marc D. (JSC-XI211) via > Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > > There was a daytime bolide over the AZ/NM/Mexico area this morning (16 Oct > 2021) at 1323 UTC which may have generated a meteorite fall. The American > Meteor Society is reporting it here: > https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6611 > > > > At the time of this writing, the AMS is reporting a ground track just east of > Tucson. This event shows up clearly on both the GOES East and West satellite > data, in the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) imagery, but with a ground > track that appears to be farther to the SE and in northern Mexico. > > > > NOAA weather radar imagery from the KEPZ radar (El Paso, TX) reveals a > striking feature which appears near the location suggested by GLM and at the > time reported by GLM and eyewitness accounts. This feature is a > rapidly-spreading circular feature centered on: > > > > 107.9987°W 30.7232°N > > > > This feature appears as an expanding circle at low altitude, moving at 30 mph > outward in all directions following the time of the bolide. This circular > signature may be birds scared into flight by the sonic boom. This same bird > feature is visible in radar data for the Monahans and Indian Butte meteorite > falls. No falling meteorites are obvious, but the event occurred at long > range from the radar and the weak radar signatures of falling meteorites may > not appear. > > > > In summary, GLM, eyewitness, and weather radar data indicate that a meteorite > fall may have occurred in Mexico near the coordinates listed above. This > site is populated and features a few farming communities, with the "El > Chocolate" dry lake bed to its south. Conditions should be good for recovery > of meteorites. Analysis of radar data will continue. > > > > Cheers, > > Marc Fries > > ______________________________________________ > > > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
