(meteorobs) South African fireball and possible meteorite fall

[Jim Pettit]

...and yet another blurry traffic camera view (with a helpful time stamp):

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc0_1259104126

--Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Bruce McCurdy
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:33 PM
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: (meteorobs) South African fireball and possible meteorite fall

    Don't recall reading anything about this on meteorobs, so am forwarding 
this report from the Amateur Astronomy Mailing List (amastro).

    Bruce
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1. Meteorite impact close
Posted by: "Magda Streicher" magdalena at mweb.co.za   amondale13
Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:33 am (PST)


Hi all, perhaps you all heard about the meteorite seen over South Africa on
Saturday night which was scary close to our farm. Read my report below.

Magda

Meteorite entry in Northern Province

At the farm site around 15km from the Zimbabe border, 16km north of the
little town Alldays at South 22o30 and East 20o07. a meteorite entry was
seen on Saturday night at 22.04 SA Time and 20h04 UT Time.

The brightest light ever seen was light up the bush field as far as the eye
could see, you should be able to read a book! The next second an impact
sound close to that of a bomb blast with a definite ground impact sound,
follow up with an after sound that went over into a rattle sound which last
for around 3 seconds with slight trembling of the ground.

I ring various people around the area and there was a few who saw the bright
meteorite entry.

One guy reports that the blinding meteorite turn into a fiery red purple
fire ball. In this stage a loud sizzling sound was heard, burning smoke was
seen and the earth was rambling with windows shaking like mad. Another close
to Platjan border post report that he thought his house is been blast away
and ran outside with shock.

This morning, Monday I talk to another Botswana guy who said that the impact
was like a bomb blast close to him. He stayed around 20 kilometres inside
Botswana from the SA border. Because of the rain no fire was report in the
area around us. It looks like the impact sound was been heard over a radius
of more that 200 kilometres. Taking all into account the impact could be
around 50km from us but it is only an estimate. A very real experience which
just show one how vulnerable we are on this little blue dot.

Magda


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