(meteorobs) [Astro] BRIGHT fireball over central Alberta

[Tim Dixon (Home)]

Hi folks:

Sent an email on this meteor to the list as well, doesn't seem to have
filtered through yet, so I'm copying the text of it into this message so it
merges with Bruce's established thread. See below.

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Tim Dixon
tim at timdixon.ca




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Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Subject: Fw: Meteor?
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From: tdixon at ideafactory.ca

Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:52:34
To: Astronomy List - U of A<astro at mailman.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Meteor?


Anyone else see the HUGE fireball over Edmonton tonight? Saw it at 1729,
driving home from work. Started about 20 deg above the W horizon, heading a
few deg S of W, tracked it until obscured by buildings so it may have made
it to earth. Large head, very bright, at least 1-3 deg across at its peak,
thought it might have been a plane on fire!

Who do I report this to?

Tim Dixon
Sent from my BlackBerry(R) wireless device


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Ross Sinclair <ross_sinclair at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  seen a couple news reports on it now Bruce...but no pics or video
> yet....maybe it was the toolbag that departed the ISS yesterday??  [image:
> Winking smile emoticon]
>
> Ross
>
>  *From:* Bruce McCurdy <bmccurdy at telusplanet.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:45 PM
> *To:* Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org> ; Astronomy
> Discussion list <astro at mailman.srv.ualberta.ca>
> *Cc:* rascals at lists.rasc.ca
> *Subject:* [Astro] BRIGHT fireball over central Alberta
>
> Just sitting here in my living room minding my own business at 17:27
> MST when a bright flash caught my eye out the picture window. I looked up
> and saw a second, probably brighter flash just above the eastern horizon,
> probably 100 degrees azimuth, only 5-10 degrees above the horizon at that
> point and dropping. It was an intense orange colour reminiscent of
> flickering firelight, but in my split second judgement possibly brighter
> than the Full Moon, certainly in that range. There are lots of reflections
> in my picture window, and by the time I finished going "holy $#!+" and
> stepped outside there was no evidence of any sort of persistent train.
>
> Within 30 seconds my telephone rang, and it was local RASCal Yves Lamarre
> who had been outside with his wife near their home in Sherwood Park, 30 km
> east of me. They too had seen the fireball to _their_ east, presumably even
> brighter than what I saw. They saw it a little higher in the sky though it
> ended fairly near the horizon for them as well. She got the better look of
> the two, so I suggested that she write down the details of what she
> observed. Yves will forward it to the Astro list.
>
> No doubt we will be getting a lot of reports at the science
> centre/university about this one. There will be tons of eastbound traffic at
> that time of day, such as Sherwood Park commuters. I hope that some of the
> fireball cameras will have caught it as well.
>
> In a word: WOW!!!
>
> Bruce
> *****
>
>
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