(meteorobs) Major Fireball Over SE USA

[Cooke, William J. (MSFC-EV44)]

Most of the NASA allsky cameras are down because of the tornados - no power
or network at 3 of the sites. The southernmost camera in Cartersville was
operational, but this event would be at extreme range - I am manually
searching its video buffers for the meteor.


On 4/30/11 10:45 AM, "Mike Hankey" <mike.hankey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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