Hi All,
Meteorite Central has been acting up all week with posts showing up in batches of 20 or more at a time, often delayed by days and/or repeated. At the risk of sending another message into the internet wormhole, here is a resend of my now somewhat dated post from last night: - - - - Originally sent: 3/1/2007 10:20pm PST Hi All, Was out getting the mail and was treated to a nice fireball descending and moving right-to-left, starting in Cassiopeia in the northwest. The particulars in case someone else in the southern California area saw it: Date: 3/1/2007 Time: 8:25 pm PST Location: Irvine, CA (33.631N, 117.817W) Starting azimuth: 320 +/- 5 Starting elevation: 22 +/- 2 deg Ending azimuth: 295 +/- 5 Ending elevation: 12 deg +/- 1 deg Duration: 3-4 seconds Speed: on the slow side Brightness: -7 to -8 Color: orange Comments: no fragmentation, but a "thick" meteor track about a quarter-degree wide in the cross-track direction. No sonic booms heard any time in the following 4 minutes. I'm about 90% sure I heard electrophonic hissing coincident with the visible display. I can't be 100% sure, but it may have been the hissing that prompted me to turn and see the meteor. I was standing near a tree, a metal light poll, and the somewhat large metal box containing all the mailboxes for my end of the street. --Rob
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