(meteorobs) Halloween Fireballs

[FELIX A MARTINEZ]

Several of my Students here in Central Virginia @Nelson County High
School saw this bright meteor (around 0215 UT).  It made all the local
news on TV for this area.  Plus even saw/heard on the television tonight
the Astronomy Professor @ the local College (Lynchburg College)
describing it as likely a bright Taurid.  Apparently, He was out
observing Mars with a few of His Students and saw this bright fireball,
describing it as the brightest object He has ever seen in the sky.  Must
have been impressive!  I had just gone in the house a mere ten minutes or
so before this bright meteor event!!  Feeling almost despondent today!!!

                In Astronomical Affinity - Felix


On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:56:16 -0800 "Robert Lunsford"
<lunro.imo.usa at cox.net> writes:
> Trick or Treaters in the middle eastern portions of the USA were 
> treated to 
> at least two bright fireballs on the evening of October 31. The 
> American 
> Meteor Society has received over one hundred reports of these 
> objects. Most 
> of the reports involve a fireball brighter than the full moon that 
> occurred 
> near 0215 UT (9:15 EST). Most of the reports have been from the 
> Maryland/Virginia region but there have also been reports as far 
> south as 
> Georgia, as far west as Kentucky, and as far north as New Jersey.
> 
> A more complete report will be forthcoming as soon as all the 
> reports have 
> been read and recorded.
> 
> Clear Skies!
> 
> Robert Lunsford
> 
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