(meteorobs) Las Vegas Fireball Mar 11/12

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Subject: (meteorobs) Las Vegas Fireball Mar 11/12
From: GeoZay <GeoZay@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 09:01:51 EST
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This was posted on aol today with no other details.
GeoZay

>>I was out jogging on 3/11, Wednesday night at approx. 7:25 in Las Vegas on
clear [almost] full moon night:  Out of the corner of my eye I saw something
bright and looked up to see a fireball .... yes, a fireball streaking across
the sky.  It looked like magnesium does when it burns white hot, and it was
about 3 times brighter than Venus at it's brightest and about 3 times as large
as Venus too.  No sound.  I was right next to a sodium street lamp and
saw it clear as day, to give you perspective.  When it entered my periphery,
it was already bright, so I'm sure I caught it on it's last half of it's life.
It lasted about 2 - 3 seconds going from bright white with an orange halo to
fading to a bright orange.  It was moving N-NE towards S-SW at a pretty fast
pace.  It passed through where about Orion is at that time.  Hope that
description is thorough enough!  To put it scientifically, it was
"really cool!!"  <<