(meteorobs) Large bolide as projected VT, Ontario, Montreal 23FEB2011

[Paul Goelz]

At 07:07 AM 2/23/2011, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>A large green bolide has been seen in VT in USA, Ontario & Montreal 
>Canada ~5:25 EST 23FEB2011
>
>http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/02/vermont-green-meteor-fireball-23feb2011.html
>
>Dirk Ross...Tokyo

Interesting.  I was in the car this morning (February 23rd) at what I 
think was about 5:12 AM EST on the freeway in the northern Detroit 
suburbs and saw a spectacular fireball.  Greenish, with a very short 
trail... maybe 1-2 degrees.  I'd put it in the low negative magnitude 
range but there wasn't really anything else near it to use as a 
reference.  I can't be sure but it looked like there might have been 
two very closely spaced nuclei, so close that they almost appeared as 
one.  I was busy driving so I can't give very precise coordinates 
other than it was somewhere between south and southeast, and looked 
like it was traveling straight down from maybe 45 degrees elevation 
to maybe 20 degrees.  Took maybe 2-3 seconds from the time I first 
saw it to when it extinguished.

I'm pretty sure about the time, so this doesn't seem to coincide with 
the 5:25 report.

Anyone else see it?

Paul


Paul Goelz
Rochester Hills, Michigan USA
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