(meteorobs) May 4 Fireball

[Thomas Ashcraft]

Hi Thomas,
   
  Interesting and fine report...especially the part "At
brightest part of event midly painful to look directly
at as it being so bright."
   
  Unfortunately I am not monitoring forward scatter presently but am concentrating my radio astronomy on Jupiter and Io.
   
  I think the forward scatter observer in Roswell is Stan Nelson.?  Not sure.
   
  I look forward to hearing more about this fireball.
   
  Clear skies,
  Thomas Ashcraft
  Lamy, New Mexico
   
  

Thomas Dorman <drygulch_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
  Hi.All
Observed bolide event in El Paso last night at
magnitude -14+ as best we can tell at this time.Major
reports from public and police of sonic boom shaking
ground and windows.Some tv station are reporting space
junk but I know the different between space junk
reentry and meteor event.I observe at least four to
six fragment leaving final airburst.The speed was 2
to3. Now have two cameras report capturing
event.ElPaso camera captured 6 second of the event but
not all of it.New Mexico camera about 260 miles North
recorded the event a -10.4.No seismic record found for
this event.Will try and pass information as I get.At
brightest part of event midly painful to look directly
at as it being so bright.
Event was about 50 degrees in Length.At times tail was
about 30 degrees in length. The fireball was 4 to five
degrees in diameter.Tail a degreee or more wide,Train
last about 2 seconds from inside El Paso's light dome
from location I was observing from.Observers in east
El Paso county reported train lasting more than 10
seconds.
Thomas AshCraft in Rosewell New Mexico I have report
of people seeing this event from your area.Did you get
radio scatter of this event?
Regards
Thomas dorman
Horizon City,Texas 

--- Robert Lunsford wrote:

> A significant fireball, exceeding the full moon in
> brightness, was seen over
> southern New Mexico and western Texas near 2150 MDT
> on May 4
> (0350 Universal Time May 5). Most of the reports
> received by the
> American Meteor Society indicate a duration of five
> seconds with a wide
> variety of colors. Most notable feature of this
> event was a sonic boom
> heard in the El Paso, Texas area approximately two
> minutes after the
> appearance of the fireball. At this time it appears
> this object was a
> sporadic (random) fireball, not associated with any
> known stream.
> 
> These reports may be viewed on the AMS Fireball
> Table at:
>
http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2006.html
> 
> Clear Skies!
> 
> Robert Lunsford
> American Meteor Society
> 
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