(meteorobs) Big fireball over Cheyenne, WY

[Chris Peterson]

I had someone in Denver contact me about a very bright meteor he 
witnessed on 1 Aug at 3:23 am MDT. I didn't appear to have it on my 
camera, but it was captured by the allsky camera on the roof of the 
Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Later I found it in my data, as 
well, as a flash behind clouds rejected as lightning.

Looks like it produced a massive fragmentation event at a height of 105 
km over Cheyenne, with the flight visible both before and after that. 
Estimated magnitude is -12. The witness reported seeing a persistent 
train that lasted at least ten seconds. No other eyewitness reports have 
been received.

The radiant suggests it could be a SDA, although my analysis isn't the 
best since the entire path was captured by just one camera.

Video of the event is at 
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=73620

Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com