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(meteorobs) Massachusetts fireball sighting
Here is an e-mail forwarded to me by Todd Gross of WHDH in Boston concerning
the numerous reports of "meteor showers" last night over eastern MA. As I
originally suspected, it was a brilliant exploding meteor. -- joe rao
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Scott Observatory ---- I.A.U. Minor Planet Center #823
Latitude: 42N 36' 34" Longitude: 71W 49' 51"
Elevation 1,040'
Fitchburg, Massachusetts USA
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Todd,
Observed a slow moving, but brilliant fireball at 6:46 pm tonight (22:46
UT) moving from SE to NW breaking up about 5 degrees below Alpha Peg.
Estimated brightness magnitude -7, brilliant green glow as it broke up
into 4 or 5 pieces, visible for about 5 or 6 seconds and immediately
disappeared as it broke up.
Len Amburgey
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