(meteorobs) Morse Code or Dash-DOT!!-Dash Meteor (N. Calif.)

[Thomas Dorman]

Wayne
Very cool video!I really liked the train event left
behind by this meteor.I agree with Chris,the meteor
broke up and most likely burn up,though there is an
outside chance a few small fragments may have made it
to the ground.Sure wish where two station record an
event like this there could be some quick calulation
on the trajectory.This will always tell the story.Once
again great video.I am still hoping to get a camera
going at my location by early next year to back up the
El Paso camera.
Regards
Thomas Dorman
Horizon City,Texas
--- Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Chris, thanks. Good to get your input. We just got
> through about 5 days 
> of cloudy and damp weather, and it was clearing up
> last night; however, 
> it's conceivable that some areas of the sky were
> obscured for other 
> observers. Anyway, I'll keep my fingers crossed that
> others gathered 
> data on it.
> 
> Chris Peterson wrote:
> > Hi Wayne-
> >
> > Very nice. Looks to be several times brighter than
> the nearly full 
> > Moon. Quite a few people must have seen it that
> early in the evening. 
> > If you can get another angle on it, I think you'll
> find it was fairly 
> > deep in the atmosphere when it fragmented. This
> didn't skip or go back 
> > into space- it came down into denser air and
> fragmented, producing a 
> > bright burst. Most of the original mass was lost
> in under a second at 
> > that point. What was left continued, and then
> experienced a second 
> > fragmentation. The resulting terminal explosion
> probably consumed what 
> > was left. Most likely no meteorites were produced,
> but sometimes 
> > fragmentation events can produce meteorites
> because very small 
> > components may slow down fast enough to avoid
> ablating away.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > *****************************************
> > Chris L Peterson
> > Cloudbait Observatory
> > http://www.cloudbait.com
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Watson" 
> > <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>
> > To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 5:33 PM
> > Subject: (meteorobs) Morse Code or Dash-DOT!!-Dash
> Meteor (N. Calif.)
> >
> >
> > A fireball blazed over our Sacramento skies late
> last night, and was 
> > caught
> > on my video camera. I would guess this one left
> the atmosphere. No 
> > reports
> > of debris that I know of yet. See a composite and
> QT mov (movie) file 
> > of the
> > event at
>
<http://speckledwithstars.net/meteor_beginnings.html>.
> Scroll to
> > the bottom.
> >
> > I suppose it might be possible some debris fell
> over somewhere by 
> > Redding;
> > however, presently this is just a guess. Perhaps
> visual observers saw 
> > it. It
> > occurred around 11:07 PM (PDT). It appears to have
> glanced off the
> > atmosphere and kept going after the burst (Dot).
> It was going NW from 
> > here
> > in Nevada City, CA.
> >
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> -- 
>            Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop.,
> Nevada City, CA)
> 
>              (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8
> hr std. time)
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> W, 2700 feet
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