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(meteorobs) Fireball Report Feb 4 2004 (see comment), Cronulla, NSW, Australia (fwd)
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From: NAMN Fireball Reports <namn@atmob.org>
Cc: howard@riverrock.org
Subject: Fireball Report Feb 4 2004 (see comment), Cronulla, NSW, Australia
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 04:23:27 -0500 (EST)
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Your Name? Howard A. Landman
Your Town/State/Country? Fort Collins, Colorado
Date and Time? Feb 4 2004 (see comment)
What compass direction did the fireball appear from? N or NE
What compass direction did the fireball DISAPPEAR from? N or NE
How long, in seconds, were you able to see it in the sky? 4
How many degrees off the horizon was it when it APPEARED?
(As a reference, a closed fist held at arm's length is
approximately 10 degrees.)
10
How many degrees off the horizon was it when it DISAPPEARED? 2
How bright did it appear?
Like a star, Venus, the Moon, or the setting Sun?
> moon
Did it have any color(s)? white (like magnesium flare)
Did it appear to fall apart as it went by? What did that look like?
may have gotten a bit wider near the end, but I couldn't see any separate
pieces
Did it leave a persistent streak in the sky after it was gone?
How long did that last?
No, neither smoke nor afterglow
How fast did it move? Use a 1 to 5 scale, 1 being
VERY slow, and 5 being extremely quick.
2
Did you hear a sound?
If yes, what was the time delay from sighting to sound?
no
What is the closest Town/State to where you saw the fireball?
Cronulla, NSW, Australia
Please put any additional remarks, sketches, drawings, etc. below:
Around sunset Australian time. I took a picture a couple minutes AFTER the
fireball that was dated 2/4/04 1:54:30 AM (Colorado time). How can I submit
it? Meteor started above the stack of clouds in the upper right and moved down
and slightly left until barely above the horizon a little in from the end of the
peninsula. The nearly-full moon is in the picture for reference - it was much
more intensely bright than that, but also much smaller, so I can't judge whether
the total light given off was greater. Because it was under 10 degrees
elevation and the atmosphere is only 100 miles thick, I estimated that it could
not have been more than 1000 miles away, which would put it somewhere over (or
off of) the east coast of Australia.
I also took another picture a tiny bit later that may allow estimation of cloud
drift speed, but I don't think they were moving much.
I've seen Leonids and Perseids and this was FAR brighter than anything else I've
ever seen. It would have been EASILY visible in full daylight. A shame that my
camera was in my backpack!
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