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ARCHIVE RESEND: (meteorobs) Las Vegas Fireball Mar 11/12
>From: GeoZay <GeoZay@aol.com>
>Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 09:01:51 EST
>To: meteorobs@latrade.com, peter@danlon.physics.uwodot ca, fidac@imodot net
>Subject: (meteorobs) Las Vegas Fireball Mar 11/12
>
>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!!" <<