Hi Gracie,
By what the two witnesses so far have reported, I would give it an excellent
chance of having produced meteorites, but finding them is a whole different
story unless one hit something and was found!
Best regards,
Greg
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----- Original Message -----
From: "gracie" <[email protected]>
To: "Greg Hupe" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "Meteorite-list"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [2nd Sighting] Fireball in Florida Tuesday
night
Greg and Larry,
I'm actually in Gainesville, though I missed the sighting last night. No
rains are expected soon . . Adam, do you think there might actually be
stones on the ground?
Larry, about your question regarding keeping track of fireballs, I'd
recommend you or your friend create an report over at the American Meteor
Society (http://www.amsmeteors.org/).
I'll also be keeping an eye out here for local reports and ask everyone I
know here if they saw anything.
How exciting!
Gracie
Hello All,
I interviewed someone today in Florida (in person) who witnessed last
night's fireball in Florida. Here are the coordinates from where this
person
witnessed it near Sebring, FL:
27°23'48.91"N
81°24'4.84"W
This lady and her husband were driving north on County Road 17 just south
of
Sebring. She confirmed, along with her husband on the phone, that it fell
around 9:30 pm straight down (towards north), but slightly to the right
(east). They saw the fireball moving and then "light up" before
disappearing
on the horizon. They did not see it fall into pieces like Larry's friend
did
up in Gainesville so It fell closer to Gainesville opposed to Sebring.
Here is a link to an image I put together using Larry's witness report
and
mine to show fall directions from these two witnesses . I tried to load
on
a
Google Earth satellite image but after re-installing everything on my
computer last week, I can not make Google Earth work properly. I am
trying
Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, but neither seems to let me use the
Push-Pin option while viewing in satellite view. No time to mess with it
now, have to pack for a trip somewhere else, leaving tomorrow.
http://www.lunarrock.com/floridafireball3-30-10/florida3-30-10.jpg
I would check for radar images from Ocala, Orlando, Tampa and Lakeland.
Best regards,
Greg
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----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Meteorite-list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:33 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] FIreball in Florida Tuesday night
Hi Everyone:
A friend of mine (Greg Beckner) in Gainsville, FL just sent me this. He
was out with a group of scouts and saw the following (second paragraph):
I took my Cub Scout pack to the model airplane field last night & showed
them a few R/C aircraft. A sidebar to that is the field is several miles
out of town and has a good view of the horizon and darker skies, so I
also
took the telescope. We saw Mercury about 5 deg from Venus last night & a
few deep sky objects at the last part of Astronomical twilight & before
moon came up.
Around 9:30 local time, while packing up, I saw the most impressive
fireball meteor almost directly to the south. It started like an Iridium
flare, but just got brighter & brighter. It was close
enough where you could see a flame structure and fragments breaking off.
Will the next "Meteorite Men" episode be filmed here??? So far, nothing
in paper yet. Is there something that keeps track of such events? I'm
sure we weren't the only ones seeing it (*it scared the crap out of my
kids!!!)
Here's GPS cords of flying field - I was looking Almost Due South - maybe
just a
little to the East of due South. Time was perhaps between 9:20 & 9:40pm
EDT. Path of the object was almost straight down & it was about 35 deg
up...
N 29° 31' 07"
W 082° 33' 32"
Larry
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