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Re: (meteorobs) Daytime Meteor-Redux
At 13:16 24/12/03, Marianne McAvenia wrote:
>Hi,
> I'm new to the list. Last week I was assisted in posting a message about a daytime Meteor (or fireball) I observed on 11, December, 2003 @ 3:45 EST.
>
>It looked as though the fragments (maybe even one BIG ONE) were going to splash into the Atlantic Ocean. I am on the North East Coast of the USA.
>
>If anybody has ANY more info on this sort of event, please enlighten me. One of the list posters mentioned that it was no meteor. It was what, then? A "fireball", surely, but of what origin? It had to be massive because it glowed brightly in broad daylight, trailing a long yellow tail, and the explosion was quite vivid and dramatic.
>
>Help! I am no rocket scientist, just a stargazer from way back.
>
Marianne,
George Zay's comment was pointing out it wasnt a geminid meteor, not that it wasnt a meteor or fireball.
The Geminid radiant wasnt above the horizon at that time of day, so it couldnt have been associated
with the geminid meteor shower.
Incidentally there were no satellite re=entry's on december 11, so it couldnt have been one.
Because of the much slower speed of satellites compared to meteors, and there horizontal
trajectory,satellite re-entries usually last over 30 seconds.
Tony Beresford
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