(meteorobs) Fwd: large bolide over California/Nevada

[bob]

w/o much fanfare on this forum, thank goodness, a meteorite was found from this bolide.
http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2012/04/25/california-fireball-drops-rare-meteorites/


--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at ...> wrote:
>
> I think you all will find is is way farther North as I predicted early on 
> looking at witness reports.
> 
> It appears the radar confirms this....
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Esko Lyytinen" <esko.lyytinen at ...>
> To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at ...>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:32 AM
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: large bolide over California/Nevada
> 
> 
> >
> > You can see the shadows of the bushes. And it looks that the right side
> > of the image is approaching the opposite of the Sun.
> > A quick lookup puts the Sun's direction as az=89 degrees and altitude
> > angle 18 degrees, that is about East (the Sun).
> > Hope, I had the time correct in UT , 14:52 UT (?)
> >
> > Esko
> >
> >
> >> Actually it is a picture of THE bolide event.
> >> I have talked to the picture taker. It was taken at 7:52 +/- 1 minute 
> >> (correcting the camera time for known time. It was taken from 
> >> Coordinates: 39.904146, -119.99288. Looking south (still trying to get an 
> >> exact azimuth angle, I think it was more SSW or SW).
> >> Will let you know if I find out anything new and interesting.
> >>
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