(meteorobs) [meteorite-list] Yet another video of Pennsylvania 6JUL09Fireball? YES!

[Matson, Robert D.]

Hi Mike,

> If this is legit this is great news!

It's definitely legit and a match.

> I found another video last saturday from the safe harbor dam,
> but this is yet another one. If this is authentic that makes
> 3 videos: York Water Company, Safe Harbor Power Corp and this
> Pittsburgh one, plus the original picture I took. That should
> be enough to get a good read on this thing right?

Absolutely. I'll be using the Pittsburgh video and your high resolution
CCD
image as the stereo solution pair. The York Water Company video will
serve
only as a track angle confirmation since its quality is poor and the
camera
pointing is not known accurately. (My prior 3D solution was based on
your
image and the York Water Co. video, but there was a fair amount of slop
in the family of solutions since the York camera azimuth is not known to
better than 10 degree accuracy.)

> Jupiter would have been at 24 degrees ALT 131 degrees AZ on this
date/time
> (from freeland).

Freeland?  I thought the location was Harmar Township, northeast of
Pittsburgh?  In any case, from northeast of Pittsburgh, Jupiter's
location at 1:10am EDT on 7/6/2009 would have been about azimuth 131,
elevation 21.  If the location can be pinned down more accurately (as
well as the time), then Jupiter's location (plus the two stars that
are visible) can be determined to 0.1 degree accuracy.

> Slightly NE of Pittsburgh does line up with york and safe harbor, but
> everything I've have heard up to this point puts this on a SW / NE
> direction. With this new video it would seem the path is NW / SE.

I've only done a preliminary analysis with the new video, but the
flight direction appears to be toward the NNE.  (My earlier analysis
based
on the York video put it toward the NNW, which just goes to show that
the information for that video isn't very good.)

--Rob