(meteorobs) fireball report

[Robert Lunsford]

Ed,

We recently changed servers and our fireball report form no longer works. We 
are working on the problem and hope to get it resolved soon.

Take Care!

Bob

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From: "Ed Cannon" <edcannonsat at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:17 AM
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Subject: (meteorobs) fireball report

> The AMS online fireball report form was not working
> ("404 Not Found").
>
> 7/8 November 2009
>
> 18:46:00 November 7 local (Central Standard) time
> 00:46:00 November 8 UTC (within about 5 seconds)
>
> San Antonio, Texas, USA (29.40 North, 98.66 West)
>
> magnitude estimate -8
>
> appeared near zenith, crossed Cygnus near Alberio
> going northwest, disappeared at about 60 degrees
> altitude at azimuth about 315; traversed about 30
> degrees of sky; track pointed back towards Pegasus
>
> lasted about 2 seconds
>
> color was yellow-white to orange with some green
> fringing
>
> had a wake or train
>
> a bit of minor sparking (minor fragmentation?)
>
> I was showing a Hubble Space Telescope pass to
> my mother when this fireball appeared.  A few
> minutes earlier we had watched a very bright
> (-4) pass of the International Space Station.
> Of course Jupiter was very prominent in the
> sky.  This fireball was obviously way brighter
> than they were!  I had time to say, "Look!
> Look!", and she said "Where?" and did see the
> last one-half to one second of the fireball.
>
> Fireballs are great!
>
> Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
>
>
>
>
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