Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-21 Thread debfred
Hello List, My TOP meteor sighting has to be Jan. 11th 1998 just after midnight. My wife and I were on our way home from a friends birthday party in Lakewood, Colorado. We were on the Colfax viaduct where it crosses the Platt River, Interstate 25, and many rail lines when the sky to the south

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-21 Thread debfred
My Bad, Elbert is an LL6. I think it was the 4th of 5 wittnessed falls in Colorado. -- Original message -- From: debf...@att.net Hello List, My TOP meteor sighting has to be Jan. 11th 1998 just after midnight. My wife and I were on our way home from a

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-21 Thread GeoZay
Fred...how fast did it seem to go during those 2 seconds? As fast as a satellite, plane, or a little faster? Zip across the skies or a little slower etc? About as fast as the Geminids? Taurids? The time of the night of its appearance kinda bothers me some. Any sonics reported from this

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-21 Thread Chris Peterson
21, 2010 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings! Fred...how fast did it seem to go during those 2 seconds? As fast as a satellite, plane, or a little faster? Zip across the skies or a little slower etc? About as fast as the Geminids? Taurids? The time of the night

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-21 Thread GeoZay
This was a slow fireball- several seconds long, observed by hundreds of witnesses. It was also caught on video, as a reflection on a car from a security camera. I've still got the original witness reports as well as the big maps where the data was plotted. Although the original search

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Dave Myers
Hi list, I have never been lucky enough to see a bolide, or fire-ball. But I have in my life seen 3 that were bright green, 2 That made a loud hissing or swishing noise. But this past november, I seen a very Bright white one start directly over head and head south east, as the bright light

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Greg Catterton
whitefalcons...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings! To: Jeff Grossman jgross...@usgs.gov, Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com Cc: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:33 PM Hi list, I have never

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Dark Matter
Hi Dave, This is the best one I've ever seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwWc_eCkSyw The smoke was quite colorful and lasted a long time. I saw it as it flew across western Montana on its way to its closest earth approach over Canada. Best, Martin On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Dave

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Shelly
Message - From: Greg Catterton star_wars_collec...@yahoo.com To: Dave Myers whitefalcons...@yahoo.com Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings! I saw a really nice one on the way to the recent MAG

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Gary Fujihara
Aloha meteor watchers, My most memorable meteor sighting was on November 21, 2001, during the peak of the Leonids shower on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii was in the perfect location to view the peak (of the 2001 shower and 33 year cycle),

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Galactic Stone Ironworks
Hi Gary, Great stories. Being an amateur astronomer, you know that if you spend enough time looking up, you will see things that many people don't ever see or rarely see. I used to think shooting stars and bolides were rare until I picked up telescopes and big binoculars for the first time.

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Dave Myers
Myers --- On Sat, 2/20/10, Dark Matter freequa...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dark Matter freequa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings! To: Dave Myers whitefalcons...@yahoo.com Cc: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, February

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Jeff Kuyken
: Dave Myers whitefalcons...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings! To: Jeff Grossman jgross...@usgs.gov, Galactic Stone Ironworks meteoritem...@gmail.com Cc: Meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:33 PM Hi list, I have

Re: [meteorite-list] Your top meteor sightings!

2010-02-20 Thread Jeff Kuyken
-list] Your top meteor sightings! Aloha meteor watchers, My most memorable meteor sighting was on November 21, 2001, during the peak of the Leonids shower on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii was in the perfect location to view the peak