(meteorobs) Major Fireball Over SE USA

[Mike Hankey]

After a quick review of the plots, this looks like it was headed west to
east towards Jacksonville FL and may have hit the ocean.

there's a good chance this would have been caught on the NASA allsky
cameras.

Its too nice of a day for me to spend inside looking at meteor data, but
maybe later...



On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:43 AM, <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net> wrote:

> A fireball brighter than the light of the full moon has been reported over
> northern Florida, Georgia, the Carolina's, and Alabama. It occurred near
> 22:00 EDT on April 29th or 02:00 Universal Time on April 30. The American
> Meteor Society has received nearly 25 reports of this object so far. Most of
> the witnesses report the major color as orange. Two witnesses in Georgia
> reported a sonic boom that shortly after the fireball disappeared.
>
> Summaries of these reports may be viewed on the AMS fireball table at:
>
> http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php?start_date=2011-01-01&end_date=2011-12-31
>
> Refer to event #456 for 2011.
>
> Clear Skies!
>
> Robert Lunsford
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