(meteorobs) Southern Arizona Fireball - Jun 23

[Carl Hergenrother]

Hi Larry,

Unfortunately, the 3 Sentinel systems in southern AZ are co-located at this time for testing purposes. We are planning to expand the network to 6 cameras and have been fine tuning each camera. Figures a major event would happen now. I haven't heard from Robert Crawford whether any of the cameras picked up the fireball, or were even on at that time.

Hopefully the 2 cameras near El Paso caught sight of it.

- Carl

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Larry <ycsentinel at att.net> wrote:

From: Larry <ycsentinel at att.net>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Southern Arizona Fireball - Jun 23
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 9:54 AM

Wonderful!!!

Relative "Grapefruit size" from a witness is more than impressive!

There looks to be a number of cameras judging from the North American map, 
of about 4 other cameras in Ariz. and Southern New Mexico that should have 
imaged that event.

Just Ho-Hum activity in N. California lately....that's why I am re-wrapping 
fly rods. :-(

YCSentinel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chergen" <chergen at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2009/06/24 09:32
Subject: (meteorobs) Southern Arizona Fireball - Jun 23


> Last evening a major fireball event occurred over southern Arizona.
> It was visible from as far north as the Phoenix metro area and all
> over Tucson. It happened around 9:21 pm MST (4:21 UT) and from my
> home in central Tucson, the fireball was to the SE around 20-30
> degrees altitude.
>
> Though my meteor cameras were not pointed in the right direction, I
> was outside at the time and was an eyewitness.
>
> More details are on my blog (including other eyewitness accounts) at
> http://transientsky.wordpress.com .
>
> In addition to having a brightness that rivaled the full moon, it
> was observed to have fragmented into dozens of pieces and caused a
> loud sonic boom 1-3 minutes after the event. It looked very similar
> to the videos I've seen of the Peekskill fireball from 1994 though
> last night's only lasted for ~5 seconds.
>
> Did any other meteor cams pick this up?
>
> Regards,
> - Carl Hergenrother
>
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