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Re: (meteorobs) The 7/23/01 Pennsylvania Fireball



From Aerielle Louise  ;-)
Mn.Talk Radio Network
7/24/01

Thank you, Jim !
Fantastic job !!
Appreciate all your hard work !!!

A.  ;-)


Jim Richardson wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I spent much of this afternoon taking a preliminary look at the 150 or so
> reports that the American Meteor Society has received on the 7/23/01
> Pennsylvania fireball (witnessed from Ontario, New York, New Jersey,
> Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia).
>
> I have produced, and placed up on the AMS web site, a "push-pin" type map
> of the observer locations, the general direction that they saw the fireball
> in, and have indicated by color code whether or not sonic booms were heard.
> Next to this is an excellent drawing that I was sent of the event from a
> witness in southeastern Pennsylvania (I have not yet received any
> photographs or video of the event).  On the map I have also drawn a VERY
> preliminary bounding box for the trajectory of the fireball based upon this
> rather cursory review of the data, and helped by the fact that observers in
> the Welsboro/Morris Pennsylvania area all report the object as passing
> directly overhead and generating very strong sonic booms.  The map and
> drawing is located at:
>
> http://www.amsmeteors.org/index.html
> or
> http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log.html
>
> Additionally, I would kindly request that all fireball reports for events
> occurring over the United States please be made to the American Meteor
> Society.  Our report form is located at:
>
> http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html
>
> This will give you the most exposure for a single report made, since I do
> the following with it:
>
> (1)  For significant events over the USA, I may conduct my own
> investigation of the event and make reports about it to the general public
> -- the more information I have, the better,
> (2)  A copy of the report will be quickly forwarded to the International
> Meteor Organization, such that you don't have to fill out more than one report.
> (3)  A copy of the report will be sent to the Canadian Meteorite and
> Impacts Advisory Committee (MIAC) for event occurring over Canada or a
> bordering U.S. state.
> (4)  I will notify potentially interested members of the Meteoritical
> Society about significant fireballs occurring over their regions, in the
> likelihood that they may wish to follow up on the sighting for their own
> scientific purposes.
>
> Note that for now, reports made to the IMO FIDAC are *not* generally
> forwarded to me, so if you make your report directly to the IMO, I will not
> see it.  This is something that Andre and I can perhaps arrange for in the
> near future.
>
> Best regards,
>
>       Jim Richardson
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> James Richardson
> Department of Planetary Sciences
> Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
> University of Arizona
> Tucson, AZ  85721
>
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>
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> American Meteor Society (AMS)
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