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Re: (meteorobs) Reporting Public Fireball Sightings
At 16:12 28-05-1999 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Dave Hostetter wrote:
>>I just got a phone call from a guy who saw a orange fireball on Wednesday,
>>May 19, 1999, between 9:30 and 10:00 PM CDT. He was driving east on I-10
>>in southern Louisiana between the cities of Lake Charles and Lafayette.
>
>Dave, others who read 'meteorobs' from that area of the US will hopefully be
>able to respond to your request for additional sightings. I'm just writing to
>suggest that, for this and all similar fireball reports from the public, folks
>always try to get the witness to fill out a fireball report with one of the
>meteor groups. There are forms available on the Web - either to be filled out
>on-screen, or printed out and forwarded to the appropriate address.
>
>By submitting reports to these groups - who in turn forward them to a central
>world repository known as the IMO Fireball Data Center - you ensure that the
>maximum scientific value is derived from the sighting. What's more, by
tracking
>their own sighting with the local meteor group, the witness is far more likely
>to hear of any other sightings for the same event...
>
>
>Here are some of the appropriate Web sites for fireball reporting:
>
> The main FiDaC report form is on-line at:
> http://www.imodot net/fireball/report.html
>
> For the US (printable forms ONLY):
> http://Web.InfoAvedot net/~meteorobs/fireball_form.html
>
> In Canada:
> http://dsaing.uqac.uquebecdot ca/~mhiggins/MIAC/fireball.htm
>
> For more "unusual" reports - especially those in Europe:
> http://home.wxsdot nl/~terkuile/fireballs/fireball.html
Hi Lew,
I hereby inform you the URL of the DMS fireball form has been changed:
http://home.wxsdot nl/~dms-web/fireballs/fireball.html
Thank you!
Casper.
>Clear skies!
>Lew Gramer
>
>
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