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Re: (meteorobs) You should 'a' been here a few minutes ago...
Hi all,
At 13:00 UT I heard an analysis of what the cause of my cloud had been.
Richard Berendzen, Prof. of Astronomy at American U. in Wash., DC, had
apparently been in touch with NORAD. The fireball was due to reentering
space junk. Dr.B. thought that Norad had been tracking it for awhile.
Radio reports indicate that the show was seen from Virginia Beach, VA to
Boston, MA and by all the morning commuters heading to workdot it illustrates
one of my favorite tautologies by the master of tautologies, Lawrence (Yogi)
Berra, "You can observe alot by watching".
Rich
>From: "Richard Taibi" <rjtaibi@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>Subject: (meteorobs) You should 'a' been here a few minutes ago...
>Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 08:37:37 -0400
>
>Hi Everyone,
> This morning, about 10:00 UT, I saw a bright "cloud" in a familiar
>fireball-created sinuous shape low in the NE sky. When I first saw it I
>thought it was the far-below-horizon sun refracting light through the top
>of
>a distant thundercloud's ice crystals. But then I realized that the light
>should have been a lot redder if the cloud was cumulonimbus, due to the
>angle the cloudtop would have with the sun. Nooo.., this "cloud" was too
>high, that's why it was so solar colored.
> This mornings news confirmed my belief that I had missed a beauty of a
>fireball. There had been a report of a meteor around 9:30 UT. Too bad I
>hadn't been out a half hour earlier...Did any one in the Mid-Atlantic,
>Tidewater Virginia, NY City area see anything?
>
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