------ Forward Message ------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:19:57 -0800 From: "Robert Lunsford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (meteorobs) Fw: Large meteor on 2/22/04 @ ~ 20.30 EST
If anyone else witnessed this fireball please share your report with myself and Mark Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Bob Lunsford - ----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > I was wondering about a huge meteor that I saw last night. If anyone else noticed it or it showed up on a radar or something? I am a student pilot and was flying around the pattern with my instructor when we noticed a pretty big ball of fire moving across the sky and falling toward the earth. > I am from Worcester Massachusetts and from my vantage point the fireball entered the sky at about 290 degrees and disappeared at about 240 degrees, we estimated that we saw it start at about 80,000 feet and it fell seemingly all the way till about 25,000 feet ASL. I have seen plenty of meteor showers in my life but this was the only time that I ever saw the outline of the meteor, and then a fire trail to follow. It seemed to be about the size of dime when compared to the windshield of the air plane-Cessna152. Not only did we see it but the ATC tower called us to see if we saw it as well. > It traversed a great distance in about 2 seconds. Also at the moment that it stopped burning or glowing it seemed that there was a significant amount of meteor still intact. I would assume that (if it did land) it landed either in the gulf of mexico or in one of the southern states near there. > However I could be wrong. But I was just curious if you heard any other reports. > > Thanks for you time > Andrew > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
