(meteorobs) Bright daytime fireball over New Mexico

redkenyi redkenyi at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 12:04:09 EST 2013


I saw the same meteor from Tramway & lomas in Albuquerque. It was blue/green and from what i can tell from the description below I saw it when it first entered our atmosphere. It was definitely bigger than the average meteor and had not started breaking up when I witnessed it. It was over the Sandia Mountains and disappeared over the northern horizon. I am no expert but I am an aavid sky watcher. This was my second daytime meteor. It's nice to know i wasn't the only one that witnessed it.

Ed Mowery - Outside Sales Engineer - New Mexico

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Thomas Ashcraft  wrote:
>
> 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 ... 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 
> > *To:* imo-network at yahoogroups.com 
> > *Cc:* Gural, Peter S.  ; Wayne Green 
> >  ; 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/
> >
> > http://scottysmightymini.com/
> > http://www.ustream.tv/channel/scottys-sky
> >
> >
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