(meteorobs) Possible June Lyrid fireball

[Chris Peterson]

I recorded a very bright fireball (mag -13) over Colorado on June 23 at UT 
08:49. The radiant of this event was within my measurement error of the 
radiant of the June Lyrid shower, which is suggested by the IMO as a 
"possible source", and seems to have been more active in the 1960s. I 
obtained an initial velocity of 47 km/s, which is high compared with the IMO 
estimate of 31 km/s (I don't know how that speed was obtained).

In any case, this is an interesting fireball that fragmented explosively at 
a height of 53 km. I have posted a report at 
http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireball20100623.html ; be sure to check 
the nice videos from two of my allsky cameras. Tom Ashcraft also caught this 
on his allsky camera in New Mexico, over 400 km to the south.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com