(meteorobs) two fireballs

[Arlene Carol]

hi again bruce,

actually, when i saw the flash from that window, i could also see the moon
in the south window...i listened for a few moments thinking that maybe i had
seen the flash of a distant thunderstorm
even though we have clear skies. i checked Accu-weather and they are showing
thundershowers in Salonika...which is in the general direction of the flash
(actually the flash was 'overhead' more than 'to the west') but i don't
think it was lightening...i don't know the mileage, but it IS a very long
drive from here to Salonika...more than 12 hours from here, I think.

no, no sound at all. just our owls.

ar.

On 5/28/07, Bruce McCurdy <bmccurdy at telusplanet.net> wrote:
>
> > Well, it would be nice to have someone in the 'neighborhood' corroborate
> > what I 'sort of' saw. I believe it was 11:13 PM local time.
>
>     Of course. In this case my bedroom observer lived in a metropolitan
> area
> so there were lots of eyes in the neighbourhood.
>
> > I don't know how many other 'watchers' we have around here.
> > What would be the radius of 'visibility' for something like that?
> > For instance, would an observer in Salonika, Greece (more than 12 hours
> by
> > train from the Turkish/Greek border) have been able to
> > see it. (assuming 'it' WAS a fireball)
>
>     Depends on trajectory, altitude, brightness ... and, no doubt, other
> factors that I will leave to the experts on this list. But the Alberta
> event
> was observed from at least Ponoka to Athabasca, which is some 200 km N-S,
> and was also recorded by an all-sky camera in Saskatoon, over 500 km east.
> So potentially these things can be seen over a very wide area.
>
>     I assume from your description of "dead silent except for the owls"
> that
> you did *not* hear anything associated with the fireball. I'm hearing
> conflicting reports about whether ours had an audible component.
>
>     Bruce
>     *****
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