(meteorobs) Large fireball Aug 25 2013 0954:50 UT West Texas. Anyone catch it?

[James Beauchamp]

Nothing on the OKC camera, and sadly, Speclab crashed a few hours prior.  Not sure why, but it stops screenshots without reason sometimes.






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 From: Bill Cooke <cookewj at comcast.net>
To: Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org> 
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2013 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Large fireball Aug 25 2013 0954:50 UT West Texas. Anyone catch it?
 

Both NMSU and NMSkies NASA cameras picked this one up at 09:54:49.4 UTC. It's on the edge of the field, so errors in the trajectory are fairly high.

Begin location: 102.985 W, 33.790 N at an altitude of 97 +/- 2 km
End location: 102.795 W, 33.787 N at an altitude of 75 +/- 2 km
Speed: 29 +/- 3 km/s
Radiant: RA - 334 +/- 10 deg, Dec: 26 +/- 9 deg

Puts it right across the New Mexico/Texas border, NW of the town of Morton.

Regards,
Bill Cooke
NASA Meteoroid Environments Office

On Aug 25, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at heliotown.com> wrote:

> Aug 25, 2013
> 
> Did anyone catch a large fireball on Aug 25 2013 at 0954:50 UT in the 
> west Texas- eastern New Mexico vicinity? (0354:50 am MDT / 0454:50 am CDT)
> 
> I caught a flash behind clouds which might have come from over the 
> horizon in which case this fireball would have been deeper into north 
> central Texas.
> 
> It should show on space fence radar for Texas observers.  It made a 30 
> second radio reflection at 217 MHz and a two minute reflection on tv 
> forward scatter frequencies.
> 
> Thomas Ashcraft  -  Heliotown  -  New Mexico
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