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[belatrix]

Apologies!  forgot to add meteor speed - medium fast

On 27/04/2005, at 8:48 PM, belatrix wrote:

> Hi Group,
> Was out for a evening stroll in a dark park in suburban foothills this 
> evening with my wife, and we saw a very bright meteor at around 7:13 
> PM local time - 9:47 UT ( going on that I am here at exactly +9:30 UT? 
> which have always done! - may be out by 4 min? according to SNP?) 27th 
> april 2005 - exact location was around 34º 51' south 138º 41' east
>
>  It began for me high in the east at around an altitude of around 40 
> or more degrees, somewhere above and maybe slightly to the right of 
> Jupiter, I think somewhere in or around Corvus. ( I was close to the 
> hills so it all appeared a bit lower for us of course - so I have 
> writtten the correct elevations from my Planetarium program)
>
> It travelled in its path, I think, as much as 60º, down and towards 
> the the sse horizon -  the just slightly broad bright blue/white mag ~ 
> -4 path actually arced downwards gracefully and then more sharply 
> towards the very end - very nice! - and had passed between the 
> pointers to boot, before terminating in a pretty bright blue/white mag 
> -5 or -6?larger ball shaped terminal flash, maybe about 20º above the 
> sse horizon.
>
> It was helpful that - 2.4 Jupiter was very close to beginning of path 
> travelled, so could get good rough estimate on mag.
>
> No train was noticed, nor was any noises were heard.
>
> Cheers
> Kearn Jones
> Adelaide, Australia
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