Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.
Look at the times in the video frames: I can't read the times in the early frames with the object quite well, but it appears this object was visible for at least an hour. Remember it is a time lapse sequence, not a true real-time movie! This is much too long for a fireball. Frankly, I think it is just a time-lapse sequence of the moon descending to the horizon. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org private website: http://www.marcolangbroek.nl - __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.
I can't really make out the times very clearly. I wasn't sure if this was true timelapse, or triggered timelapse. In the former case, it obviously isn't a meteor of course. Good point about the Moon, which was setting about that time just north of west. The green color is kind of interesting. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Marco Langbroek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:36 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list. Look at the times in the video frames: I can't read the times in the early frames with the object quite well, but it appears this object was visible for at least an hour. Remember it is a time lapse sequence, not a true real-time movie! This is much too long for a fireball. Frankly, I think it is just a time-lapse sequence of the moon descending to the horizon. - Marco __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.
Hi All, A friend of mine managed to catch what appears to be fireball with an impact on his webcam. He is an amateur astronomer with a webcam setup and caught the fireball on a time lapse sequence. Can anyone with some experience watch this video and render an informed opinion? And if this is a meteor streaking in and hitting the Earth, where should he report this to? http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Strgazr27/1/video.html?month=02year=2008filename=current.flv Pay attention to the first 10 seconds or so of the video. Click on the play icon and watch from the left side of the screen. My friend's description of the video : This was taken looking NW out of my second story bedroom window. This would be looking towards the Westchester NY area just N or New York City. Any input or thoughts on what to do with this? MikeG PS - I'd love to go hunt it down, but I am not free to travel! (assuming it's a meteorite) Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.
This does look like a fireball. Its intensity profile and lack of terminal explosion makes me think it was fairly high altitude. Since it disappears over the horizon, I'd estimate that it stopped burning several hundred miles away, probably near Lake Ontario. I doubt it produced meteorites. Maybe one of the allsky cameras in the Toronto area caught this as well. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Michael Gilmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list. Hi All, A friend of mine managed to catch what appears to be fireball with an impact on his webcam. He is an amateur astronomer with a webcam setup and caught the fireball on a time lapse sequence. Can anyone with some experience watch this video and render an informed opinion? And if this is a meteor streaking in and hitting the Earth, where should he report this to? http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Strgazr27/1/video.html?month=02year=2008filename=current.flv Pay attention to the first 10 seconds or so of the video. Click on the play icon and watch from the left side of the screen. My friend's description of the video : This was taken looking NW out of my second story bedroom window. This would be looking towards the Westchester NY area just N or New York City. Any input or thoughts on what to do with this? MikeG PS - I'd love to go hunt it down, but I am not free to travel! (assuming it's a meteorite) __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] NEW FALL?! Need help from the list.
I'm not even sure it is a meteor. This is 24 hours of time lapse compressed into 15 seconds, it's hard to tell for sure but looking at the time code as the light moves across the sky it seems to take quite awhile. Mark Michael Gilmer wrote: Hi All, A friend of mine managed to catch what appears to be fireball with an impact on his webcam. He is an amateur astronomer with a webcam setup and caught the fireball on a time lapse sequence. Can anyone with some experience watch this video and render an informed opinion? And if this is a meteor streaking in and hitting the Earth, where should he report this to? http://www.wunderground.com/webcams/Strgazr27/1/video.html?month=02year=2008filename=current.flv Pay attention to the first 10 seconds or so of the video. Click on the play icon and watch from the left side of the screen. My friend's description of the video : This was taken looking NW out of my second story bedroom window. This would be looking towards the Westchester NY area just N or New York City. Any input or thoughts on what to do with this? MikeG PS - I'd love to go hunt it down, but I am not free to travel! (assuming it's a meteorite) Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
