Re: [meteorite-list] Frederick, Maryland Fireball
This was reported to the AMS regarding the 12/28/2010 MD/PA fireball. Sonic effects Concurrent SoundYes Delayed Sound Yes Remarks before i saw the ball streak there was bright flashes similiar to lightning that lasted 5-10 seconds before the steak, then heard an explosion in the distance 2 mintutes after the ball streaked across the sky, similiar to a Class B mortar just 1 boom Of the 144 reports this is the only one reporting a boom. several others reported swooshing sounds. No sonic reports to the AMS regarding the 12/29/2010 MD/PA fireball. The 12/28/2010 MD/PA fireball was the 2nd most ams reported fireball event of 2010. WI was the 1st. The 12/29/2010 MD/PA fireball was the 6th most reported. Witnesses / event ID. 324 / 194 - WI 144 / 929 - 12/28/2010 MD/PA 66 / 330 59 / 705 35 / 247 28 / 934 - 12/29/2010 MD/PA On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:21 AM, geo...@aol.com wrote: Any reported sonic booms? The reports I'm reading seems to lack this little tidbit of important news for meteorite hunters. geozay __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Frederick, Maryland Fireball
Thanks for sending this out. The article is a little confusing regarding the dates. Part of the article says it was tuesday and part says wednesday. Confusion is added considering there were 2 fireballs out here this week. One was Tuesday: Dec 28th @ 6:45 - 6:50 the other was Wednesday: Dec 29th @ 8:30 The one tuesday night was spotted all up and down the east coast and has resulted in close to 100 AMS reports. I think that's the most ams reports for a single event since WI. On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Pete Pete rsvp...@hotmail.com wrote: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=114410 http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=114410 Witnesses startled by shooting star over Frederick Originally published December 30, 2010 By Patti S. Borda News-Post Staff It wasn't a bird. It wasn't a plane. It wasn't even ... well, you know, but there was something that zipped across the evening sky at about 6:50 p.m. Wednesday and a number of area folks say they saw it. I tell you what, the hair stood up on the back of my neck, said Al Labrush, a veteran meteorite watcher and collector. It was frightening. Labrush said he was standing near Danielle's restaurant downtown when he caught sight of something that looked to be about 1,500 feet away. I heard this sizzling behind me. ... I turned and looked: This huge meteorite came. ... It was throwing off sparks and chunks, Labrush said. I'm into meteorites -- every time they call for meteor showers, I'm out. I very seldom get scared -- (but) I never want to see another one like that. Steve Lawrence saw it, too. Lawrence was driving home on Old Kiln Road when he saw the bright object in the northern sky, like a fireball, through the passenger side window. Three white flashes erupted, lighting up the night like daylight for an instant, and then it all seemed to disintegrate, he said. Night turned to day, Lawrence said. The flash was like heat lightning. Sean Dennison saw it, too -- from Hagerstown. Dennison, who works with Lawrence, was walking from his house to his car when he saw it. It was so unusual that he went back inside to tell his wife, before heading out to play racquetball. He heard Lawrence talking about the bright light Wednesday and chimed in. I saw the same thing, said Dennison, who compared the white brightness to burning magnesium, and the object moved slower than a falling star. A burst of sparkles, like fireworks, concluded the scene, he said. Lawrence said he watched a plume of smoke hanging in the night sky for 20 minutes. Robert Gutro, a NASA deputy news chief, said he took a call from a woman he did not know who telephoned Tuesday to report what she had seen. She was kind of panicked, Gutro said. She described the bright object moving across the sky, and it broke up into pieces, he said. A spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said NORAD did not report tracking anything, which rules out so-called space junk, such as out-of-commission satellites. Frederick County Emergency Communications reported no calls about it. If it was a meteor, it likely left a trail of debris, said expert John Wasson at the University of California at Los Angeles. He said it sounded like a meteor is probably what people saw. Wasson predicted that meteor hunters such as Mike Farmer of Tucson, Ariz., would be on the trail before anyone else. Farmer said he surely would be. Normally, I would jump on the plane and come out, Farmer said when reached by telephone. But Wednesday he was preparing to go to the Middle East on an expedition. Farmer was not aware of any meteoric activity here, but based on the accounts of Tuesday's event, he said he would have people look into it. Lawrence said he had the unsettling feeling that whatever it was fell less than a mile from his house, and he planned to look for evidence. You need to experience that right behind your house, he said __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Frederick, Maryland Fireball
Any reported sonic booms? The reports I'm reading seems to lack this little tidbit of important news for meteorite hunters. geozay __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Frederick, Maryland Fireball
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=114410 http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=114410 Witnesses startled by shooting star over Frederick Originally published December 30, 2010 By Patti S. Borda News-Post Staff It wasn't a bird. It wasn't a plane. It wasn't even ... well, you know, but there was something that zipped across the evening sky at about 6:50 p.m. Wednesday and a number of area folks say they saw it. I tell you what, the hair stood up on the back of my neck, said Al Labrush, a veteran meteorite watcher and collector. It was frightening. Labrush said he was standing near Danielle's restaurant downtown when he caught sight of something that looked to be about 1,500 feet away. I heard this sizzling behind me. ... I turned and looked: This huge meteorite came. ... It was throwing off sparks and chunks, Labrush said. I'm into meteorites -- every time they call for meteor showers, I'm out. I very seldom get scared -- (but) I never want to see another one like that. Steve Lawrence saw it, too. Lawrence was driving home on Old Kiln Road when he saw the bright object in the northern sky, like a fireball, through the passenger side window. Three white flashes erupted, lighting up the night like daylight for an instant, and then it all seemed to disintegrate, he said. Night turned to day, Lawrence said. The flash was like heat lightning. Sean Dennison saw it, too -- from Hagerstown. Dennison, who works with Lawrence, was walking from his house to his car when he saw it. It was so unusual that he went back inside to tell his wife, before heading out to play racquetball. He heard Lawrence talking about the bright light Wednesday and chimed in. I saw the same thing, said Dennison, who compared the white brightness to burning magnesium, and the object moved slower than a falling star. A burst of sparkles, like fireworks, concluded the scene, he said. Lawrence said he watched a plume of smoke hanging in the night sky for 20 minutes. Robert Gutro, a NASA deputy news chief, said he took a call from a woman he did not know who telephoned Tuesday to report what she had seen. She was kind of panicked, Gutro said. She described the bright object moving across the sky, and it broke up into pieces, he said. A spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command said NORAD did not report tracking anything, which rules out so-called space junk, such as out-of-commission satellites. Frederick County Emergency Communications reported no calls about it. If it was a meteor, it likely left a trail of debris, said expert John Wasson at the University of California at Los Angeles. He said it sounded like a meteor is probably what people saw. Wasson predicted that meteor hunters such as Mike Farmer of Tucson, Ariz., would be on the trail before anyone else. Farmer said he surely would be. Normally, I would jump on the plane and come out, Farmer said when reached by telephone. But Wednesday he was preparing to go to the Middle East on an expedition. Farmer was not aware of any meteoric activity here, but based on the accounts of Tuesday's event, he said he would have people look into it. Lawrence said he had the unsettling feeling that whatever it was fell less than a mile from his house, and he planned to look for evidence. You need to experience that right behind your house, he said __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
