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From:  "dave g" <omegacent@yahoo.com>  
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 14:40:35 -0800 (PST) 

Subject: [Bolide_Chasers] Bolide report from AUSTRALIA

      
G'day List,
Here is a report of a bolide [sic] my friend and I
observed on the morning of the 
28th February 2004.
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Location
Linden Observatory, in the Blue Mountains, west of
Sydney AUSTRALIA
Latitude 33 42'S  Longitude 150 29'E  Elevation 564M

Time
13:16UT on the 27th March = 12:16AM local 28th March
(we are 11 hours ahead 
of UT)

Observers
David Gault and Ted Dobosz

Description
I first saw it as I swung the scope from C2002 Q4 NEAT
low in the South West over towards EtaCar in the South
East, so I picked it up almost due south of us.   
I yelled to Ted and in my excitement I shouted to look
to the South-West and then realized that I made
mistake
as Ted couldn’t see it, but I quickly corrected my
instruction to the South-East and we both stood
transfixed watching the object moving in a
east-south-east direction.

The nucleus was small but bright (mag -2) it had a
huge orange corona about * the size of the moon (1/4
degree) and a tail about 5 or 6 times as long as the
corona (1 1/2 degree).  We watched it for maybe
10 seconds before it disappeared into the Sydney sky
glow.  

There were no sonics to be heard.

The corona is the thing that sticks in my memory as it
had a soft transparent orange hue to it somewhat akin
to a planetary nebula except that they're blue/green. 
The tail was also orange but somewhat darker and 
the nucleus also orange resembled Mars at opposition.

It didn't continue down to the horizon but simply got
fainter and fainter but didn't seem to get smaller. We
watched until we couldn't see in anymore.

An event to remember.

Regards
Dave
33 39'51.94"S  150 38'27.95"E  286.1M Alt
http://www4.tpgi.com.au/users/daveg/index.html
AUSTRALIA

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