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Re: (meteorobs) BRIGHT METEOR MONDAY NIGHT
HI Mark,
I was observing at 0:29-1:44 UT on Oct.9 and facing west/zenith with Vega
near my field center with Ophiucus in my field of vision. No fireball seen
from my site in Southern Maryland at approx 38.5N and 79W. Sounds like it
was a beauty. I wish it was above my local horizon! Best wishes, Rich
Taibi
>From: "Mark S. Williams" <n4okx@n4gn.com>
>Reply-To: meteorobs@atmob.org
>To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
>Subject: (meteorobs) BRIGHT METEOR MONDAY NIGHT
>Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 06:21:47 -0000
>
>Dear Meteorobs:
>
>Monday evening (Tuesday morning UT) at 0138 UT I was out working on the
>installation of a new tower for my ham radio pursuits. My friend Tim, who
>was helping me with the engineering work, exclaimed "look at that meteor".
>Tim was facing west and I was looking east (naturally!) but I was able to
>spin around and see the last 2 seconds of what he described as a
>spectacular
>meteor burn.
>
>He described seeing the meteor burn start somewhere between Scutum and
>Ophiuchus and it terminated north of Hercules...nearly into Draco. The
>part
>I witnessed was at least magnitude -2.
>
>Anyone else witness this thing? Tim thought it might have been some space
>junk burning up, but it was very blue-white and I did not see any
>"sparklers" burning off it. If it was space debris it was an object that
>had
>been in polar orbit because of it's south-north path.
>
>As I finished up outside (around 0530 ut..dot it's going to rain Thursday...so
>I've got to get concrete poured by Wednesday!) The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn
>were stunningly framed by Auriga and Orion...what a beautiful night!
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark S. Williams
>Elizabeth, In
>GC: 38.08.16 N, 85.56.06 W
>
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