(meteorobs) Brilliant Fireball Dec. 29/30 Northeastern U.S.

[Richard Taibi]

It is interesting that Mr. Bortle, to the northwest of the Long Island observers saw the fireball on a NW to SE path.  The Long Island observers saw it on a SE to NW path.  If memory serves me, I believe that reversal in apparent path indicates that the fireball's real path occurred between Poughkeepsie and NYC.  Can someone confirm or disconfirm that?  Rich Taibi> From: Skywayinc at aol.com> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:50:36 -0500> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Brilliant Fireball Dec. 29/30 Northeastern U.S.> > > In a message dated 12/29/2008 10:42:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, > JBortle at aol.com writes:> > I'm sure this event must have been widely > observed and must have been extremely spectacular in the Boston, MA and > Providence, RI areas well east of me.> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------> ---------> > Here are two reports of the same object seen by John Bortle by members of > the Amateur Observers' Society (AOS) of New York: > > Wondering if anyone saw the bright blue/green meteor at 9:27 pm on> December 29th. I was facing towards the west when I saw a bright flash> on the ground and when I turned around I caught the end of the meteor.> It was blue/green and left a a 3-4 degree sparkling train behind it.> It was traveling southeast to North/Northwest about 40-45 degrees off> the eastern horizon quite spectacular!> What is amazing I spend 99.9% of my time inside my observatory> inside the warm room and do not spend hardly any time outside under> the stars with the exception of tonight. I have one mount 100%> automated and it was imaging ic405 at the time, the second mount was> just set up and is a visual rig. While I enjoy imaging in the> observatory it is hard to beat being outside in the air under the stars.> Danny Janosick> > > I caught the tail end of the same meteor as I was turning onto Route 110 > from the Southern State Parkway. I noted the same time as you. It looked blue > green the portion that I saw, which was just before burnout.> > Rich Huber> > **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, > Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. > (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)> _______________________________________________> Mailing list meteorobs: meteorobs at meteorobs.org> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email: owner-meteorobs at meteorobs.org> http://lists.meteorobs.org/mailman/listinfo/meteorobs