(meteorobs) Major Fireball Over SE USA

Kim Youmans meteorsga at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 30 12:48:43 EDT 2011


Yep.  One report from Jacksonville gave the direction as "west."  It was seen 
here in my home county, to the southwest, which supports that possibility.  
Still waiting to hear from Steve Farmer to see if he had his all-sky video going 
in Central GA last night.

Kim Youmans




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From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over SE USA

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
>1
>
> Refer to event #456 for 2011.
>
> Clear Skies!
>
> Robert Lunsford
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