Thanks Mike!
I plotted several of the reports. I posted on CSR and the Desertsunburn
group. Really need a couple of sightings from New Mexico to help out the
picture! Looking forward to your plot and thanks for your good work.
It is going in a direction I did not expect.
Jim Wooddell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hankey" <[email protected]>
To: "Jim Wooddell" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <[email protected]>;
"meteoritelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over Southern
California, Arizona, and Southern Nevada
Jim,
Reports come into the AMS website and go directly into a database with
a PENDING status. A human being has to review the reports, assign an
event ID and then approve the event before it will show up on the
site. Bob Lunsford usually does this work. Bob doesn't get off work
today until 3:00 PM so I'm helping him out and reviewed and approved
them all just now.
Because we have the new system and everything is in a database I was
able to review and publish 100+ reports in 5 minutes. That puts 100
reviewed and approved reports onto the AMS site in about 14 hours
after the fall. That is pretty freaking good IMO!!!
Considering on the old AMS website, the process was manual and an
event of this size would have taken Bob Lunsford 10s of hours of HTML
labor to manually update the website, this is a major improvement. Not
sure if you remember but in the past with the manual reporting it
could take days or weeks before the logs would be updated as the
process was very time intensive for Bob.
I have been thinking about adding a section to the website where you
could see what is inside the 'unapproved queue'. This might be a nice
feature for folks who are eagerly waiting to see the reports of new
fireballs ;).
As you noted the reports are now available on the site. Should have
maps and trajectories in another hour or so.
For more information regarding the new AMS website please see this
post and check out the power point slides that illustrate the new
capabilities of the site and fireball reporting tools.
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/nasa-meteor-workshop-august-3-4-2011/
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks!
Mike
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jim Wooddell <[email protected]> wrote:
Mike, how come it takes so long for the reports to appear on AMS? I looked
last night and again this morning and nothing. Then suddenly there is over
a 100??
Kind regards!
Jim Wooddell
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hankey" <[email protected]>
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <[email protected]>;
"meteoritelist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over Southern
California, Arizona, and Southern Nevada
This has made national news on MSNBC and CNN...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44529188/ns/technology_and_science-space/
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/15/southwest.strange.light/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
AMS reports are now over 100.
We should have maps of AMS witness reports plotted later today.
This area is heavily covered with all sky camera, so there should be
some videos out there. I do not have time to chase camera operators to
ask them to look for video, but if anyone on the list feels like doing
this, have at it:
http://allsky.ca/NAdatabase.html
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Robert Lunsford <[email protected]>
wrote:
The American Meteor Society has been deluged with over 50 reports of a
bright fireball occurring just before 20:00 PDT (also MST) on the
evening of
Wednesday September 14th. A quick look indicates maximum brightness
equal to
that of the full moon and possibly some fragmentation. I will not be
able to
post these to the AMS web site until later today, after I return home
from
work. If I can add any details after reading all the accounts, I will
post
them.
Clear Skies!
Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society
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