(meteorobs) Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border

[Mike Bandli]

>From Spaceweather: "A spent Russian rocket body did reenter on March 29th,
but that happened near Taiwan more than two hours after the Atlantic Coast
event."

Eyewitness reports for the bolide range from 21:40 to 21:50.

I don't know why they are reporting the Virginia Beach Bolide as hardware
decay. Of course, this seems to happen frequently with the media.

Mike Bandli

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dorman
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 1:49 PM
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County,
Md.,to the Virginia/North Carolina border


Does any one have a duration time for this event.Naval observatory in
Washingtopn is telling media it was a decaying SL4 rocket body.Yes,there was
a pass over that area but forecast decay was nearly two hours later than
reported event+/- 1 minute.



--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Barbara Wilson <bwilson2 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> From: Barbara Wilson <bwilson2 at ix.netcom.com>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County,
Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:33 PM
> Kent Blackwell, an amateur astronomer who saw this as it
> happened has posted a detailed report on  on
> amastro at yahoogroups.com.
> 
> 
> --- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Leo S
> <l.stachowicz at ...> wrote:
> >
> > Some of you may want to check your cameras. Do we have
> anyone on this 
> > list in that area?
> > 
> > Leo
> > 
> > 
> >
>
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/loud-explosions-lights-sky-reported-maryland
-nc
> > 
> > Streaking lights, explosions reported all along coast
> > 
> > Were they meteors? A comet? UFOs?
> > 
> > People from Maryland to Hampton Roads heard loud
> explosions and saw 
> > brilliant, streaking lights in the sky Sunday night.
> > 
> > There was no immediate explanation, the National
> Weather Service office 
> > in Wakefield said. The Virginia Beach 911 center had
> numerous calls 
> > waiting just before 10 p.m., a supervisor said.
> > 
> > The Weather Service said reports were made from
> Dorchester County, Md., 
> > to the Virginia/North Carolina border. People said
> they saw a streak in 
> > the sky and heard an explosion.
> > 
> > "It was orange, like a fireball," said Steve
> Wagner, who lives in the 
> > Great Bridge area of Chesapeake and said what he saw
> was too close to be 
> > a shooting star. Wagner was outside cooking with
> family when he saw the 
> > streak. He said he went inside when his daughter
> called, then heard an 
> > explosion that sounded like thunder.
> > 
> > Chris Wamsley, a meteorologist with the National
> Weather Service's 
> > Wakefield office, said there could be various causes
> of the explosions 
> > and lights. A team of people is looking into what
> happened, he said.
> > 
> > Lindsey Hosek of the Great Neck area of Virginia Beach
> was jogging along 
> > the water with her dog when the sky lit up, she said.
> > 
> > "The bright light at first terrified me because I
> thought somebody was 
> > shining a light on me, and then I saw it, and I was in
> complete awe 
> > because it was so beautiful," she said.
> > 
> > Then she saw something that looked like a comet moving
> low toward the 
> > ground; it was blue in front followed by orange and
> appeared to be the 
> > shape and size of a refrigerator.
> > 
> > "It was just so low. It was like where a bird
> should be," she said. "It 
> > was definitely heading downward."
> > 
> > She was on the phone with a friend a minute later when
> she heard an 
> > explosion.
> > 
> > Kenneth Martin of Chesapeake's South Norfolk
> neighborhood said he saw 
> > what appeared to be lightning, then the sky turned
> blue.
> > 
> > Then, he said, a white ball of fire shot close to the
> ground and 
> > appeared to burn out. He said he's sure it was a
> meteor.
> > 
> > "It was so vivid in the sky, blinking," he
> said. "It was the strangest 
> > thing I've ever seen."
> > 
> > No damage was reported, the Weather Service said.
> > 
> > /Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson at .../
> > 
> > 
> > 
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