(meteorobs) Texas fireball

[Thomas Dorman]

 Astronomer Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office is stating that this event was asteroid of about 1 meter,20 Km/s.See Space weather.
Thomas Dorman


--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Pat Branch <pat_branch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Pat Branch <pat_branch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Texas fireball
> To: edcannonsat at yahoo.com, "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 6:55 AM
> The Austin video was very low in the sky and appears to be
> close to the 
> viewer...it is not going 11 or 7.5 km/s after it has gotten
> below cloud 
> level. It was not the same object seen in the Waco area and
> neither of 
> those is related to the one(s) seen Richardson, Burleson,
> and McKenny.
> 
> So multiple objects at the same time in daylight tells me
> it is not 
> likely a meteor(s). Even though STRATCOM said in one report
> that it was 
> not related to the collision, I think we will hear it was. 
> 
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