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RE: (meteorobs) Re: US DOD FIREBALL RELEASE
George:
Thanks for posting this info on the Greenland incident. I remember
reading about this in the paper and I have been intrigued about it ever
since. I'm glad to finally see some mention of it on the meteorobs
list.
Chris Hudson
San Antonio, TX
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>Subject: (meteorobs) Re: US DOD FIREBALL RELEASE
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>Here's some more info about last Decembers event over Greenland and the
>Denver
>object in January from data aboard DoD surveillance satellites detailed by
>Peter Brown.
>George Zay
>
>>>Fireball Detection
>
>On 9 December 1997, sensors aboard DOD satellites detected the impact of a
>meteoroid at 08:15:55 UTC roughly midway between Nuuk and Qaqortoq,
>Greenland. The object broke into at least 4 pieces. One piece detonated
>at an altitude of about 46 km at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.9 degrees
>West Longitude.
>The remaining 3 pieces detonated in close proximity to one another at
>altitudes between 28 km, at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.1 degrees West
>Longitude and 25 km at 62.9 degrees North Latitude, 50.0 degrees West
>Longitude.
>
>
>Fireball Detection
>
>On 11 January 1998, sensors aboard DOD satellites detected the impact of a
>meteoroid at 07:11:13 UTC roughly midway between Denver and Grand Junction,
>Colorado. The object was detected at 39.4 degrees North Latitude, 106.4
>degrees
>West Longitude.
>
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