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

[drtanuki]

Paul,
I have posted a Google image showing the sighting locations for the 5:15am EST event over the US and Canada.

Thank you for your report!

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/02/vermont-green-meteor-fireball-23feb2011.html

Dirk Ross....Tokyo


--- On Thu, 2/24/11, Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Large bolide as projected VT, Ontario, Montreal 23FEB2011
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011, 1:08 PM
> 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
> pgoelz at comcast.net
> www.pgoelz.com 
> 
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