(meteorobs) Large scatter event 21 March over OK/TX - anyone see anything?

[James Beauchamp]

Thanks, Pat.  Based on all the events I've recorded since mid-Feb, this APPEARS to have been a large object - or at least big enough to have a clean doppler scatter until disentegration.  The line is very common with satellites, and the spreaded spectrum is an exact match with other hits disintegrating inside the main beam.  But I've never seen two at the same time.

--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Pat <pat_branch at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Pat <pat_branch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Large scatter event 21 March over OK/TX - anyone see anything?
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:38 PM


I am about 60 miles SE of the Kickapoo transmitter.
I was outside playing volleyball at the time and I saw or heard nothing.

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, James Beauchamp <ok113cmdr at ...> wrote:
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> My Space Radar Scatter receiver recorded what could be a very large event 21 March over the Kickapoo transmitter.  I've seen no events like it in the last 60 days of solid observing/recording.  
>  
> It shows what looks like doppler from the object itself, followed by large debris/trail scatter spectrum.  Single objects like the ISS or large satellites show the line.  Large bolides disentegrating in the main beam of the fence usually present the debris/scatter pattern only.  I've yet to see two correlate like this.
>  
> Of course, it could have been pure coincidence (maybe ISS at the same time), but unlikely.
>  
> See the linked capture.  The main radar frequency is centered at approx 850 Hz (tropo scatter is visible).  The two smaller trails are airplanes somewhere.  The light line at 1100 Hz is unknown, but comes and goes.
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> Time was approx 14:07:20 UTC, 09:07 AM Central time.
>  
> Anyone else in the South Oklahoma, North Texas, West NM, or East Arkansas see anything that may correlate?
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> http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30568103&l=0b4beb4177&id=1122357299
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> James Beauchamp
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