Just as a side note. Like I said in my last email. I'm from that area.
If it landed SE of Gainesville you're looking at a possible fall in
Ocala area, that HUGE area is mostly National forest! Not only that it's
super thick with palmetto and pine forests, lakes, and swamps. Good luck
out there! Watch for moccasins and cottonmouth, oh yeah and gators too.
You'll also have to consider Camp Blanding Army base and Cecil Field,
Jennings State park if it fell further north. The area out toward Lake
Butler and Baldwin are country and farming. There's lot of dairy farms
and soy bean/corn farmers out that way. There is big paper mill on 301
and 218. They own a large swath of land in the area. This is all planted
pine in neat little rows. I know during hunting season they used to open
the area to deer hunters. Not sure if they still do that, but it's worth
a try to contact them if it turns out it fell there. Let's hope!
Hope it didn't land in the drink with all those tiny lakes between
Keystone Heights and Ocala.
Regards,
Eric
On 3/31/2010 3:12 PM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:
Hi Greg,
I agree with your interpretation -- since fragmentation was witnessed
in Gainesville, and not in Sebring, all things being equal I would
place the fall closer to Gainesville. (An exception might be if the
Gainesville observer could see closer to the geometric horizon than
could the Sebring driver.)
As for direction, County Rd. 17 (southeast of Sebring) occasionally
heads to the NW rather than due north, and since the due north
direction would not intersect the line-of-sight of the Gainesville
observer, I'm inclined to believe she was on a portion of the road
that was heading NW or NNW at the time of the fall.
I'm guessing the fall would be somewhere in the vicinity of Ocala.
I'll check the real-time Doppler radar data to see if anything is
there. (I'm expecting nothing will show up.) The higher-quality,
multi-elevation-angle Doppler data will be available starting
tomorrow, and I can check it then. --Rob
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Tuesdaynight
Hey GeoZay,
"About how bright and how many seconds did this event last and about
how long of a trail?"
I asked if the sky lit up and she said, "Not really, but before it
disappeared [below the horizon], it became brighter." I asked if she saw
it break into several pieces and she said, "No." Larry's witness saw it
fall into several pieces so this is why I think it would be more north
from where my Sebring witness saw it.
Best regards,
Greg
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