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Re: (meteorobs) Fireball Alert
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Subject: Bolide sited (again)
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OK gang,
Last night, I received a call from friends in VT that saw a huge fireball,
traveling swiftly east to west (retrograde orbit - happened at 8:45 PM)!
It also seemed quite low. They did not see any sign of it breaking up (not
that it had to).
No sound was heard as they were In a vehicle traveling due south when they
encountered it.
As the part of their sky is obscured by mountains, they believe it struck
the ground because of it's trajectory, however.
It was mentioned on the news at 11 here in NY, but that is all. It may have
come down in the finger lakes region of NY, perhaps beyond.
Norad did not come clean on this one and say it was space junk yet.
Anybody 'catch' it??????
Walt
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OK gang,
Last night, I received a call from friends in VT that saw a huge fireball,
traveling swiftly east to west (retrograde orbit - happened at 8:45 PM)!
It also seemed quite low. They did not see any sign of it breaking up (not
that it had to).
No sound was heard as they were In a vehicle traveling due south when they
encountered it.
As the part of their sky is obscured by mountains, they believe it struck
the ground because of it's trajectory, however.
It was mentioned on the news at 11 here in NY, but that is all. It may have
come down in the finger lakes region of NY, perhaps beyond.
Norad did not come clean on this one and say it was space junk yet.
Anybody 'catch' it??????
Walt
James Richardson
Graceville, Florida
richardson@digitalexp.com
Operations Manager / Radiometeor Project Coordinator
American Meteor Society (AMS)
http://www.serve.com/meteors/
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