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(meteorobs) FWD: Fireball report from CO & WY, USA


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Date: 04 Aug 97 10:05:47 -0700
From: "Michael Frazier" <MFRAZIER@us.oracle.com>
To: netastrocatalog@latrade.com
Subject: (IAAC) Fwd: Meteor flashes

Sorry, this isn't an official report, but I'm looking for others that
may have seen similar occurances this past Saturday night (3-Aug).  All
flashes that we observed in Colorado were from 10pm - 1am MDT.  Apparently
people in WY also observed these same flashes.

See attached report for some details...   
   
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From:"Michael Frazier" <MFRAZIER.US.ORACLE.COM>
To:csas@lists.csndot net
Subject:Re: Meteor flashes
Cc:rstencel@phoenix.phys.dudot edu

YES!!!!  Myself, my brother-in-law, and Dave Martin were all up at 
Tarryall Meadows (where was everyone else???) and we were ASTOUNDED
by the flashes that were occuring.  We saw 4 instances (that I recall)
of this.  My brother-in-law (who has never been to a star party and
has only seen a couple of meteors before) actually saw 2 of these
(Dave and I were threatening him with having to go sit in the van 
because we were trying to find stuff in the eyepieces, and you just
kept hearing him go... "Oh WOW!  Look at that one!!!"  ;^)

Anyway, he actually saw two of these.  One was a bright meteor (he
described it as being much brighter than Jupiter) and very short
lived.  I saw the flash (like a being close to a lightening bolt 
but facing the opposite way) and turned towards it.  I didn't see
the meteor, but I saw the BEAUTIFUL glowing trail (at least 10 degrees
long) that it left!  The trail was cutting across the south-south-east
sky, below (and to the right of Jupiter).

The other one that he saw, was going vertical right down to Antares (which
was setting on the mountain about then).  He said that just as it was above 
the tree tops on the mountain ridge that it exploded (which is what the flash 
was).  I was looking in the exact opposite direction (AGAIN!) and only saw
the reflection of the flash.

There were two other flashes that occured after the sky clouded up (about 
12:30am).
We were attributing those to lightning, but now that I think about it, there
never was any other lightning, or thunder and the flashes seemed close (not
like a far away flash).

Oh yes, one more report...  We (all three of us) were watching Jupiter in the
cloud as we had finished packing up (about 1am).  Jupiter looked like a beacon
winking in and out.  All three of us watched a "dim" (maybe 3rd magnitude) 
meteor
zip overhead.  My brother-in-law commented, "there goes another, but thats not
very bright".  I noticed then that this part of the sky was completely clouded
over and you could just barely see the 3 stars of the Summer Triangle (they 
looked
like fuzzy 4th or 5th mag stars)...  So we guessed this was probably a 0 mag or
brighter meteor seen through the mirk... 

After being up there last Saturday night, I'm really excited about this next
long weekend where I'll be up there for three nights.  The Persieds definetly 
seemed
very active already so I can't wait to see how they look as we get closer to the
peak time!

Any other flash reports??? 
   
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Date: 04 Aug 97 08:35:46
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I was at the Fox Park star party this weekend, and 2 or more times
through Saturday night there were massive flashes in the sky, seemingly
associated with a meteor. On at least 2 occasions, I saw the massive
flash that lit up the area, then saw the streak still in the sky where
the object detonated.

Did anyone else see these Saturday night??

David
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