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(meteorobs) Re: Fwd: Very Bright Fireball(?), 06 July 2001, South FL USA
> ... on July 6, around 2:30 am about 25 miles east of Miami,
> Fl. headed for Bimini, Bahamas....
> Fireball would seem to describe it. It was brighter than
> the full moon which was was out and bright that morning.
In the case of such a wonderful fireball, I'd recommend
checking from time to time on Peter Brown's page with reports
of fireballs/bolides detected by sensors aboard United States
Department of Defense satellites. There aren't very many of
those reports released, but I would tend to assume that a
fireball brighter than the full Moon might be a fairly likely
candidate for detection. Here is that Web page:
http://phobos.astro.uwodot ca/~pbrown/usaf.html
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
http://wwwvms.utexasdot edu/~ecannon/meteorlinks.html
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