(meteorobs) San Francisco Bay Area Fireball

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

DRAT!

Last night was the (one night) that I became disgusted with the cloud cover 
and shut the system down.

Larry
YC Sentinel



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver, Chip" <chip.oliver at lmco.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2007/04/04 08:21
Subject: (meteorobs) San Francisco Bay Area Fireball


>I saw a fantastic meteor this morning.  Excuse the amateur report but I
> am, uh, an amateur.  I was driving to work in the San Francisco Bay Area
> and about 6:05-6:10AM I saw it toward the west about 30 degrees above
> the horizon.  It was not the typical pinpoint of light I'm used to
> seeing while out in the country. I could clearly see spots of light
> shoot out from it like a sparkler. It seems as though it had to be very
> low in the sky as there was a high cloud cover and it was clearly below
> it. Hard to believe that a good chunk did not make it to the ground (or
> ocean) although I'm sure this is a common amateur comment.
>
>> To give an idea of how bright it must have been, I was in my car in
>> the middle of a city with plenty of streetlights and other man-made
>> ambient light around me, first light had broken over the eastern sky,
>> and the meteor was very close to the bright moon.  Fantastic!
>>
>>
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