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(meteorobs) Re: very bright fireball 2001 Dec 22
Guy McArthur wrote:
> Date: Sat Jan 5, 2002 12:19 am
> Subject: (meteorobs) very bright fireball 2001 Dec 22
>
> I wonder if anyone else witnessed this event, or knows what
> it was. It looked like videos I've seen of space junk
> re-entering.
>
> Location: Saddle Road, near Hilo, Hawaii (big island). I
> was returning from a tour of Mauna Kea and a star party at
> the Onizuka Visitor's Center, and had gone approx. 10 miles
> from the turnoff.
>
> Time: Approx. 7:30pm HST (9:30pm PST).
There is a January 8 report on the Earth & Sky Web site that
may describe the same Dec. 22 fireball. The only discrepancy
is a roughly two-hour difference that may be attributable to a
time-zone miscalculation. The URL of the report is:
http://earthsky.com/BBS/Observers-Notebook/407x0.html
By the way, there's a message there dated January 10 that almost
certainly was an observation of a single bright flash from
Telstar 401 that some might have innocently interpreted as a
point meteor. The URL of this one is:
http://earthsky.com/BBS/Observers-Notebook/410x0.html
I've submitted follow-ups to both which should appear on the site
tomorrow.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
http://wwwvms.utexasdot edu/~ecannon/meteorlinks.html
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