(meteorobs) Fwd: [Fwd: Ask RASC - Ask an Astronomer]

Ed Majden epmajden at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 6 20:12:50 EDT 2009


Anyone have any information on this event?
Thanks:
Ed Majden

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Geoff Gaherty <geoff at gaherty.ca>
> Date: August 6, 2009 4:02:52 PM PDT
> To: Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca>
> Subject: [Fwd: Ask RASC - Ask an Astronomer]
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Have you heard anything about this event in your sources?  I  
> haven't been able to find anything myself.
>
> Geoff
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Ask RASC - Ask an Astronomer
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 05:29:29 -0700
> From: custserv at elbowspace.com
> To: geoff at gaherty.ca, askrasc at lists.rasc.ca
>
> Ask RASC - Ask an Astronomer
>
> 66.225.185.7
> 2009-08-06 7:21AM EST
>
> E MAIL: gfrowla4 at sympatico.ca
> FIRST NAME: Carroll
> LAST NAME: Rowlands
> CITY: Garson
> PROVINCE STATE: ON
> COUNTRY: Canada
> MESSAGE SUBJECT: fire ball in night sky Aug 2, 2009
> MESSAGE: Hello, I am wondering if you had any reports of something  
> in the Northern Ontario Sky at about 10 pm on Aug 2, 2009.
>
>
>
> We were watching an outside concert in Whitefish, about 1 hour west  
> of Sudbury.  We saw a large orange ball in the sky.  It was  
> traveling north east.  It was too low I think for a Satellite, it  
> looked as if it were on fire, had a large orange aura around it,  
> but did not leave a smoke or vapor trail.
>
>
>
> Would you have any ideal what that would have been?  I`d say about  
> 30 people saw it that night.
>
>
>
> Could you let me know please, I am an active sky watcher myself and  
> am very curious what that would have been?
>
>
>
> Thank you so much, I`m not sure if you would handle these kinds on  
> inquires but I`m not sure who to ask about this.  There were no  
> reports in our local paper of any incident.
>
>
>
> Carroll Rowlands
>
>  http://www.elbowspace.com
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Geoff Gaherty
> Foxmead Observatory
> Coldwater, Ontario, Canada
> http://www.gaherty.ca




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