(meteorobs) Mid-flight flaring fireball

[Richard Runcie]

Unofficial report, while taking the time to show a friend's son and his girlfriend some celestial sights from the NJ Pine Barrens last evening at approx. 10:00pm EST a beautiful green fireball with an orange tail that looked like a skyrocket traversed the southern sky from the western part pf Sagittarius heading south east at a Conservative -8 mag. and for over 40 degrees. It had many terminal bursts and fragmented along it's path. It also lasted a whopping 3 to 4 seconds. All were left with their mouths wide open. My friend's son thought it looked blue to him. It was a definite hit as they had never seen the milky way let alone a fireball.
 
Rick Runcie

--- On Mon, 8/4/08, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at heliotown.com> wrote:

From: Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at heliotown.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Mid-flight flaring fireball
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 2:58 PM

A nice fireball over New Mexico this morning with a bright mid-flight flare.

http://www.heliotown.com/Fireballs_August_04_2008_Ashcraft.html

Thomas Ashcraft

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