Howdy
I agree - I couldn't find anything in the radar data. The fireball
terminus occurred at extreme range for two of the radars (Albuquerque and
Cannon AFB) and was pretty much out of range of the Pueblo, CO radar.
Ashcraft's video data shows the body breaking into at least three good-sized
pieces before going dark, so it looks to me like there may be a small number of
good-sized meteorites on the ground from this one. Now that Sandia has their
video online, it should be possible to triangulate a position from the pair of
videos. Basically I'm saying that the video data appears to be the best route
towards recovering meteorites from this event.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I checked for decaying satellites (due to the long duration of the
> event)
> but found no matches. I also checked the 3 nearest Doppler radars to
> Albuquerque, but nothing obvious shows up. Assuming this is a meteoroid,
> the entry angle was extremely shallow, which is bad news for trying to
> locate fragments since the uncertainty ellipse is huge.
>
> For those who haven't seen Tom Ashcraft's video, you can find it on
> SpaceWeather.com.
>
> --Rob
>
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> Grab your walking boots, magnet cane, metal detector, and Mark-V
> Eyeballs! :)
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