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Still another fireball
Another fireball sighting back East in Maryland, early AM on NOV 6TH!!
--- newtonj@ttc.com wrote:
> PS to my former post, observation was from LAT. 39 27' 30" LONG 77
45' 00",
> (in the center of Sharpsburg, Md) under very poor conditions, LM = 5.2.
> Lots of light pollution in the back yard. Fireball "flared" behind
> thin high clouds in the east.
>
> John N
--- newtonj@ttc.com wrote:
> My son and I were out Nov 5 (Actually Nov 6
> AM). We were tuning up for
> the leonids, Indentifying some constellations,
> finding our LM areas,
> picking out some reference stars for magnitude
> comparison etc. At ~ 12:26
> AM we saw a nice -2 descend from auriga through
> Gemini, as it left Gemini
> towards the eastern horizon it flashed into approx
> magnitude -5 (I still
> have difficulty estimating > -4.... maybe a good
> time to review, before the
> Leonids.....) then dimmed back to ~-1 before
> extinguishing. I wasn't really
> prepared for it, and didn't check the time 'til ~ 5
> minutes later, then
> estimated the actual time. I guess I'd call it a
> sporadic, do I have enough
> info to make a valid fireball report????
>
> John N
>
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FROM: Lew Gramer <dedalus@latrade.com>
Reply-to: meteorobs@jovian.com
Definitely, John!
Any detail you can remember maybe with other details from
other observers on such an event, possibly resulting some day in a
trajectory or other valuable analysis. Report what you can remember,
as soon as you can.
Same goes for all of us meteor observers - however experienced or
otherwise you feel you are! If you see a definite fireball (-3 zenithal
magnitude
or brighter according to the IMO definition), then try to report it to:
http://www.imo.net/fireball/report.html
Clear skies and lots of fireballs everybody!
Lew Gramer
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