(meteorobs) Daylight (almost) fireball today in Maryland

[Richard Kramer]

At 02:17 PM 2/7/2006, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>While driving to work this morning I saw a bright greenish-white 
>meteor in the south about 5 minutes before sunrise.  It was 
>basically daylight, and it was neat to see a meteor in a sky that bright.

Brings to mind a truly beautiful fireball I saw during the 2001 
Leonids a little before sunrise. We had been watching the terminator 
climb out of the horizon towards the zenith. An extremely bright, 
green fireball started on the dark side of the terminator, about 
halfway between the radiant and the eastern horizon and dropped 
straight down towards the horizon. As it crossed to the daylight side 
of the terminator and travelled into sunrise which was well developed 
in the east, it exhibited no perceptible reduction in brilliance. I 
wasn't observing for record, so I didn't attempt to estimate the 
magnitude, but I would say it was at least as bright as a full moon. 
It was one of the last meteors from that storm that we we saw that 
year and it was a truly spectacular ending note.

Richard