(meteorobs) Large meteor March 21, 2008 0255 UT over Colorado

Thomas Ashcraft ashcraft at heliotown.com
Sat Mar 22 10:33:51 EDT 2008


Of possible interest to radio meteor observers:

There was a large meteor event over Colorado March 21, 2008, 0255 UT. ( 
March 20, 2008 at 8:55 pm MDT)

I heard this particular meteor while I was in my observatory in New 
Mexico and knew by the radio tones that it was a big one.  I stopped my 
visual video recording to check for it and at first did not see anything 
because the sky at the time was almost entirely cloudy on my video 
footage.  Later that day I was alerted by an observer in Colorado who 
asked if I had data on this meteor and I rechecked my video and 
fortuitously discovered the meteor flashing for a moment through the 
distant clouds.

It made a very interesting head echo on my two radios and there is a lot 
of data in the radiospectrograph I think, especially in the initial 
slanting of the head echo, which I believe gives some indication as to 
direction, either towards or away from my radio array.

See/hear movie in stereo at bottom of the page:
http://www.heliotown.com/Fireballs_March_21_2008_Ashcraft.html

Thomas Ashcraft
New Mexico




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