(meteorobs) Bright daytime fireball over New Mexico

Thomas Ashcraft ashcraft at heliotown.com
Mon Feb 4 17:20:27 EST 2013


I was not visually recording at the time but I posted my radio graphs 
for the broader time period here:
http://www.heliotown.com/Daylight_Fireball_Feb_04_2013_New_Mexico.html

Thomas Ashcraft  |  Radio Fireball Observatory  |  New Mexico
www.heliotown.com


On 2/4/13 1:11 PM, cookewj at comcast.net wrote:
> See below...
>
> Regards,
> Bill Cooke
> NASA Meteoroid Environments Office
>
> Hi Dr. Cooke,
> I just received this email from a friend in New Mexico and thought you 
> would be interested. He is a very credible observer.
> Ernie Iverson
> Lufkin, TX
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Scotty Degenhardt <mailto:scotty at scottysmightymini.com>
> *To:* imo-network at yahoogroups.com <mailto:imo-network at yahoogroups.com>
> *Cc:* Gural, Peter S. <mailto:PETER.S.GURAL at saic.com> ; Wayne Green 
> <mailto:dxwayne at gmail.com> ; IOTAoccultations at yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:IOTAoccultations at yahoogroups.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 04, 2013 12:52 PM
> *Subject:* [IOTAoccultations] Just witnessed brilliant daytime meteor 
> 18:36 Feb 4, 2013 UT
>
> Anyone interested in looking for meteorites,
>
> I just witnessed a spectacular daytime meteor. I am not sure who to
> report this to, if anyone knows who best to get this please forward it:
>
> At 18h36m Feb 4 2013 UT I was driving on due north when right out the
> front of my window a spectacular greenish to whitish fireball was
> traveling from about 40 degrees elevation heading straight north and
> broke into many pieces about 10 degrees above the northern horizon from
> my location at N 35.659231 W106.00305 and 6800 foot elevation. The
> meteor was very bright against a deep blue daytime sky. Brighter than a
> full moon, just under the brightness of the sun and leaving a visible
> ionized trail behind it. When it broke into pieces even the pieces were
> easily visible against the daytime sky! This will have produced quite a
> debris field to the north of Santa Fe, NM.
>
> Scotty
>
> -- 
> Santa Fe, NM USA
> Jovian Extinction Event Principle Investigator
> http://scottysmightymini.com/JEE/
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/JEE_Talk/
>
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> http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scottys-sky
>
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