(meteorobs) RE: [meteorobs] Digest Number 1702

[Hunter, Robert]

The report of it being as bright as the setting sun is nonsense.  That
would require a few million people to have been subjected to a brief
flash of daylight sky; that is a sky as bright as it is when the sun is
setting.  People indoors with windows facing the sky in the OPPOSITE
direction would have been startled.  Portland would have panicked.

I have little doubt that it SEEMED as bright as the setting sun.  Think
of how blindingly brilliant a light feels once your eyes are adjusted to
the dark.

Also, the "setting sun" varies by many magnitudes, according to sky
clarity.  But all of those magnitudes illuminate the entire sky.  And,
illuminate the sky to such an extent that we call it "daylight".   That
hasn't been reported.

About 40 people reported it to AMS; most without checking the time to
within half an hour.  Had it been "setting sun" brilliance, the entire
coastal populations of Oregon and Washington would have become excited.

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      1. (meteorobs) Test...Delete
           From: GeoZay at aol.com
      2. Re: (meteorobs) Setting Sun Magnitude?
           From: YoungBob2 at aol.com


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Message: 1         
   Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:29:28 EST
   From: GeoZay at aol.com
Subject: (meteorobs) Test...Delete

This is a test...please delete.
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Message: 2         
   Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:23:35 EST
   From: YoungBob2 at aol.com
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Setting Sun Magnitude?

In a message dated 3/14/2005 10:25:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
GeoZay at aol.com writes:

<< Lew>>Wow, this report calls the fireball "as bright as the   setting 
sun"??<<
  
 What would this magnitude be about? -12 to -15 maybe?
  >>

Probably brighter.  The Sun is -27.  Each 6 mags is about 100 times.

Bob Young
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