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(meteorobs) Camera Captures Meteor's Passage



Camera Captures Meteor's Passage
By John Fleck
Albuquerque Journal
August 17, 1999

A flash in the night sky seen across much of the Western United States late
Sunday night was a meteor, according to a Sandia National Laboratories
scientist who caught the event on videotape.

A special video camera outside Albuquerque recorded the exceptionally bright
meteor at 11:18 p.m. Sunday, a success for an unusual attempt by New Mexico
scientists to track the ephemeral objects that streak across the night sky.

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http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci08-17-99.htm

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