Re: [meteorite-list] fireball seen??

2004-05-16 Thread GeoZay
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball split in 2(or3) over Denmark

2004-05-07 Thread Solvænget
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

RE: [meteorite-list] Fireball split in 2(or3) over Denmark

2004-05-07 Thread Charles Viau
be the same event?  Unbelievable coincidence if not. CharlyV -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Solvænget Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 4:32 AM To: Meteorite Mailing List Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball split in 2(or3) over Denmark Hi

[meteorite-list] Fireball Streaks Across Canada

2004-03-23 Thread Ron Baalke
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Streaks Across Canada

2004-03-23 Thread GeoZay
"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

[meteorite-list] Fireball movie sequences

2004-03-20 Thread Stephen McMann
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 Check out MSN PC Safety & Security to help ensure your PC is protected and safe.

[meteorite-list] Fireball Report Feb. 25, 2004, Fort Collins, CO (fwd)

2004-02-26 Thread Robert Verish
--- Forward Message --- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:05:32 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball Report February 25, 2004, Seen from downtown Denver, Colorado (fwd) --- Forwarded Message: - From:NAMN Fireball Reports [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[meteorite-list] fireball speed

2004-02-22 Thread Stephen McMann
Dear List, 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

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball speed

2004-02-22 Thread KHe1144783
In a message dated 2/22/2004 8:11:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

[meteorite-list] fireball speed

2004-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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

RE: [meteorite-list] fireball speed

2004-02-22 Thread stan .
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

Re: [meteorite-list] fireball speed

2004-02-22 Thread Sterling K. Webb
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),

[meteorite-list] fireball?

2004-02-13 Thread lava flow
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!

[meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium

2004-01-22 Thread Ron Baalke
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Altmann
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

RE: [meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium

2004-01-22 Thread Bernhard \Rendelius\ Rems
Because he is a scientist *g*. They are always right :-). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Altmann Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium

[meteorite-list] Fireball Seen Over Colorado

2004-01-21 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Lights Sky Over England

2003-11-28 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball reported in night sky over Kingsport TN.

2003-10-22 Thread Claudia Carroll
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Shoots Across Sky Over India

2003-09-27 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball?

2003-03-14 Thread Tom aka James Knudson
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Observed Over Minnesota

2003-03-14 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Verish
Recent Fireball Reports - still seeking reports of a sonic boom... - Forward Message meteorobs-digest Thursday, February 27 2003 Volume 04 : Number 1100 (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin

[meteorite-list] Fireball Reports

2003-02-20 Thread Robert Verish
Here are some recent Fireball Reports: - Forward Message --- Subject: meteorobs-digest V4 #1096 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:16:05 -0500 (EST) meteorobs-digest Thursday, February 20 2003 Volume 04 : Number 1096 (meteorobs) Not really... (meteorobs) Recent

[meteorite-list] Fireball Reporting meteoroid heating

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Verish
Some interesting comments and good information in the following compilation from the Internet: - Attached Message -- meteorobs-digest Wednesday, February 12 2003 Volume 04 : Number 1091 Re: (meteorobs) HTML on Line (meteorobs) meteoroid heating

[meteorite-list] Fireball Splits Up Over Japan

2003-02-08 Thread Ron Baalke
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.

[meteorite-list] Fireball Blazes Over England

2003-01-31 Thread Ron Baalke
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

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Blazes Over England

2003-01-31 Thread Rosemary Hackney
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Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball Blazes Over England

2003-01-31 Thread Alan Pickup
Ron Baalke forwards... 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 meteorite blazing across the early morning sky. The man was walking

[meteorite-list] Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Spain and North Africa

2003-01-30 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Watch: Starshine 3 To Re-enter Earth's Atmosphere

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Baalke
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)

[meteorite-list] Fireball Fragments May Be Scattered Across Colorado

2002-12-08 Thread Ron Baalke
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,

[meteorite-list] Fireball

2002-12-06 Thread Thomas H. Webb
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.

[meteorite-list] Fireball Blazes Across Colorado Sky

2002-12-03 Thread Ron Baalke
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.

[meteorite-list] Fireball Spotted Over Norway?

2002-11-22 Thread Robert Verish
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball or Iridium Flash??

2002-10-25 Thread Robert Verish
Forward Message - meteorobs-digest Tuesday, October 22 2002 Volume 04 : Number 1008 Fw: [Greek-Astronomy] - Re: Fw: (meteorobs) Fireball from Greece, October 8 Fw: [Greek-Astronomy] - Re: Fw: (meteorobs) Fireball from Greece, October 8

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball?

2002-10-23 Thread Rosemary Hackney
Did it look sort of like a string of beads?? Rosie - Original Message - From: Tom / james Knudson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 10:04 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball? Hello List, I was taking the trash down tonight

[meteorite-list] Fireball?

2002-10-22 Thread Tom / james Knudson
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball(?), Rhode Island USA, 10 Oct 2002

2002-10-16 Thread Robert Verish
This report is about a fireball sighting that occurred 6 days ago: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy and Barry Sent: Tuesday, 15 October, 2002 6:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (IAAC) IAAC now accessible via '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and '[EMAIL

[meteorite-list] Fireball Flashes Across The Sky In England

2002-10-07 Thread Ron Baalke
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=12261512method=fullsiteid=50003 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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Wows New Zealanders

2002-10-06 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball !!!!

2002-09-08 Thread James_TOM Knudson
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball / Bolide Video Downloads

2002-08-18 Thread SSachs9056
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball in Riverside calif.

2002-08-14 Thread Steven Drummond
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball Sighted Over Oklahoma

2002-07-10 Thread Ron Baalke
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

[meteorite-list] Fireball or just space junk over Bavaria ?

2002-04-07 Thread Reiner Höper
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

[meteorite-list] fireball sighting from Southern California

2002-02-13 Thread Edward Hodges
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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