it appeared as a yellowish white truncated
(foreshortened?) cone reducing rapidly in size to nothing.
No sound was heard.
It was odd - it looked initially that something was skipping off our
atmosphere...
If it was fairly short in path length, you are most likely looking at a foreshortened
Hi list
Some days ago (21-04-2004, 04:41 local
time)a big fireball was seen splitt up in 2 or 3 pieces over
Denmark.
Just got all the raw data from alot of
observers.
Will get back with more data when I have had a
chance to look at them and put them on a map.
It seems to have gone into the
be the
same event? Unbelievable coincidence if
not.
CharlyV
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http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=229bcf98-ae28-497c-a1c1-0d838c277148i
Fireball streaks across Prairies
Astronomers ecstatic over space visitor
Barb Pacholik and Sherri Zickefoose
Calgary Herald
March 23, 2004
A Calgary amateur astronomer's nightly routine of
"My hair went up on end and I had goose bumps. It was wild. And it rumbledthe floor pretty good because my daughter came running upstairs asking ifsomeone fell in the house."
Well...there were sonicsprobably somewhere there ismeteorite pieces laying on the ground.
George Zay
Dear List,
Does anyone know if there is a good source for movie sequences of big fireballs, particularly those that have dropped meteorites, such as Peekskill and Park Forest?
Sincerely,
Stephen McMann
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In general how rapidly must an object travel through the atmosphere to produce visible light? Note that don't even know whether one speed can approximate an answer, or whether factors such as air density, the shape of the object, or the composition of the object have an enormous
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In general how rapidly must an object travel through the atmosphere to produce visible light? Note that don't even know whether one speed can approximate an answer, or whether factors such as air density, the
For a meteorite to be lit, it has to be traveling faster
than the speed of sound (in air) and probably faster than
that. So a meteorite can only get to the ground while lit if
hypersonic.
When an object hits something at hypersonic velocities,
the shock wave
By the way, the maximum weight for a stone to reach the
ground is less than for an iron, only 40 tons or so. That's a
stone roughly spheroidal and about 25 feet in diameter! So, if
you notice a fusion crusted rock, say, 9 meters across, be
sure and check it with a
Whoops!
It's those tricky decimal points again. Or long division, perhaps. Either
that, or the back of this envelope is not big enough. Maybe I should have used
one of those two PDP-11's you have connected with a serial cable?
And the really silly thing is that three years ago (02-20-01),
any news about fireballs etc around the 2nd of january is of great interest to me. in victoria, australia we saw a bright light cross the horizon in the middle of the day. i have been unable to find any information on what it was.Get less junk mail with ninemsn Premium. Upgrade now!
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19story_id=3903
Great balls of fire, its a meteorite!
expatica.com (Holland)
22 January 2004
AMSTERDAM - A large number of star gazers claim to have seen a large fireball shoot
through cloud cover on Wednesday night in what experts
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19story_id=3903
Great balls of fire, its a meteorite!
expatica.com (Holland)
22 January 2004
AMSTERDAM - A large number of star gazers claim to have seen a large
fireball
Because he is a scientist *g*. They are always right :-).
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http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireball20040111.html
January 11, 2004 Fireball
Cloudbait Observatory
Guffey, Colorado
This slow, bright meteor was seen by residents of Colorado at 7:05 PM.
It was also caught on two of the DMNS Allsky Network cameras. 175
witness reports have been received as
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/publish/article_8897.shtml
Air crash fears as fireball lights sky
Shropshire Star (England)
November 28, 2003
A Telford pensioner braced himself for an earsplitting explosion when he saw what he
thought was an aircraft on fire crashing to the ground near The
Callers report fireball in night sky
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
By Staff report
KINGSPORT - Callers to the Kingsport Times-News and Kingsport Central
Dispatch reported a fireball in the sky Monday evening.
They weren't alone.
Similar calls were reported to other organizations from as far
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1theme=usrsess=1id=23876
Meteorite shoots across Orissa sky
The Statesman (India)
September 27, 2003
BHUBANESWAR - A huge meteorite shot across the sky this evening causing
panic in coastal Orissa particularly Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur, Bhadrak
Hello list, I am still unsure of what qualifies a meteor to be a fireball. I
saw a good one tonight. It was about 3 times as bright as Jupiter, yellowish
in color but the strange thing was it did not really leave a trail, maybe a
short one right behind it but it was so short you could not notice
http://www.grandmarais-mn.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=5story_id=135246
Becoming an involuntary member of the UFO Club
Column: Magnetic North
Vicki Biggs-Anderson
Cook County News-Herald (Minnesota)
March 13, 2003
Last Saturday I became an involuntary member of the UFO
club. The object I
Recent Fireball Reports -
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Some interesting comments and good information in the
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http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030207p2a00m0fp003000c.html
Great balls of fire, is that a UFO?
Mainichi Daily News (Japan)
February 7, 2003
Observatories throughout western Japan were
swamped overnight with calls from people claiming to have spotted a UFO,
the Mainichi learned Friday.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/febcourierrede/NewsStory.cfm?StoryID=30924Today=310103
METEORITE HAS MAN SEEING STARS
By Michael Alexander
The Courier (United Kingdom)
January 31, 2003
AN EAST NEUK man was still rubbing his eyes in bewilderment
yesterday after seeing what he reckons was a
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By Michael Alexander
The Courier (United Kingdom)
January 31, 2003
AN EAST NEUK man was still rubbing his eyes in bewilderment
yesterday after seeing what he reckons was a meteorite
blazing across the early morning sky.
The man was walking
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030129/ap_wo_en_po/eu_gen_spain_fireball_1
Fireball lights up sky over Spain and North Africa
Associated Press
January 29, 2003
MADRID, Spain - A meteor was likely the cause of a brilliant fireball that
streaked across skies of southern
Space Weather News for January 19, 2003
http://www.spaceweather.com
The glittering Starshine 3 satellite, built by schoolkids and launched in
Sept. 2001, will soon re-enter Earth's atmosphere. Can you spot the
fireball? Re-entry estimates vary from 0500 UT (midnight EST) to 1330 UT
(8:30 EST)
http://www.montrosepress.com/display/inn_local_news/2.txt
Fireball fragments may be scattered across county
Greg Johnson
Montrose Press (Colorado)
December 7, 2002
MONTROSE -- A meteor that lit up the night sky Nov. 28 may have
weighed up to a ton and broken up over western Colorado,
Hello List,
I saw a nice fireball at 10:55 PM EST tonight (Friday, Dec. 6, 2002). I
was near Elizabethton, TN when I saw it. From there it was in the
Southeast. It came in at a steep angle traveling in a westerly direction.
The color was basically green just before it reached extinction.
http://www.durangoherald.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=newsarticle_path=/news/news021129_8.htm
Fireball baffles residents
Durango Herald (Colorado)
November 29, 2002
A mysterious light, which may have been a meteorite, blazed across the sky
in Durango on Thursday night.
Solberg noticed the object with a long, bright tail.
The entire episode lasted about EIGHT minutes, with
three minutes of it captured on tape, before the
unidentified flying object disappeared from view.
-- very curious...
I would be very interested in knowing what the
atmospheric conditions
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Did it look sort of like a string of
beads??
Rosie
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Hello List, I was taking the trash down tonight
Hello List, I was taking the trash down tonight at 7:45 and noticed a large smoke trail or something. It did not look like a vapor trail from an airplane. I always look up, and have seen many a trails left by a plane. This looked different. It was one width the length of the Trail, and then it
This report is about a fireball sighting that
occurred 6 days ago:
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Fireball flashes across the sky
October 7, 2002
People across Coventry and Warwickshire were among those who saw a
fireball shoot across the sky early Sunday morning.
Sightings were
http://asia.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/10/02/newzealand.fireball.ap/index.html
Sky fireball wows New Zealanders
Associated Press
October 3, 2002
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A fireball that streaked through the skies
of New Zealand, triggering hundreds of calls to police likely was debris
Hello List, I know some one on the list can help me with this one! Last night I took my family to the drive - in's here in Northern calif. I got out in the middle of the second movie about 11:30 pm to stretch my legs. A bright light caught my eye. I looked up and saw what i first thought was a
Good after list,
Can anyone tell me how or where I can download either on 3.5 floppy or CD,
video clips of bolides / fireballs? I have found a number of websites that
have the Peekskill video clips, but my computer refuses to save the video.
I'vetried using the: copy to, save as, send to
Hi List, I was driving in
Riverside ( 10:40 PM ) south when I saw a fireball coming from the North East
moving towards the South East at about a 45 degree angle , I saw 1 very bright
fireball for about 2 seconds then it split into 2 fireballs flowing 1 after the
other less that 1 second
http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=885061pic=noneTP=getarticle
Authorities clueless about mysterious fireball
The Associated Press
July 9, 2002
HENRYETTA - Police said today they still don't know what to
make of more than 20 reports of a mysterious fireball in the sky.
Henryetta
Hi List,
there are some hints for a possible meteorite fall over
Southern Germany. More than 50 people from Bavaria reported light- and sound phenomenalate on Saturday.
NASA says it was not related to the
reentry of a US-/Argentinian satelite predicted for early
Sunday.
Bernd: Some more
Last night at 8:47pm PST, myself and a friend witnessed a large blue
fireball while star gazing on Mt. Laguna at an altitude of 6000ft. It became
visible at 75 degree up from North/ Northwest horizon and became an intense
blue-white fireball with sparks of light at 30 degrees then disappeared.
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