(meteorobs) Central Texas daylight (noontime) fireball on April 3
Ed Cannon
edcannonsat at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 11 00:25:53 EDT 2012
Pitiful...
Now there is an article that says that the daylight
fireball was a jet contrail:
http://www.livescience.com/19609-mystery-fireball-texas-jet-contrail-nasa-scientist.html
Well -- yes, a photo that was used on TV and elsewhere
was indeed (unfortunately) a jet contrail at sunset
(or sunrise?). HOWEVER -- the actual fireball was
observed just a few minutes before *noon* (daylight
time)! Good grief! How badly downhill can science
reporting go?!
Besides the above, people who saw the thing said that
it was visible for one or two seconds. I don't know
that I've ever seen a jet contrail that was visible
for only a couple of seconds.... And I'm sure that I
have never seen a sunset-reddened jet contrail at noon.
Reminder -- it's event 493 in the April log on the AMS
website.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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