[meteorite-list] Re: Big Behind Fireball

From: Jake Marley <marley2010_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:37:32 2004
Message-ID: <384820850.976151782808.JavaMail.root_at_web628-mc>

No, no beers. Serious observation. Best way to describe it would be like a
very bright flare traveling in a straight line and changing colors. One
other thing is that it moved much slower than a "shooting star".

J.


------Original Message------
From: John Gwilliam <jkgdiver_at_primenet.com>
To: GeoZay_at_aol.com, meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: December 7, 2000 12:44:46 AM GMT
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Re: Big Behind Fireball


At 07:44 PM 12/6/00 -0500, GeoZay_at_aol.com wrote:

> >>Ok, yea yea yea...it me, Joel. Time to quit the fun and games and talk
> serious here. While I was going for a walk tonight, here in Amarillo,
TX,
> ABOUT 5:40 CDT, in the south sky I saw a BIG ASS FIREBALL, the sun hadn't
> set yet and there was still a large amount of sunlight. It was changing
> colors from Green to white, and here is the coolest part, I saw it
dropping
> pieces, much like the Peekskill fireball. This is the first fireball
like
> this I have ever seen, nothing like a "shooting star". I followed it
across
> the sky, it was headed, what looked like S to SW. Anyone else see this?
> >>
>
> >From your description, it sounds like a piece of re entering space
> debris or
>satellite.
>geozay

It sounds like 7 or 8 beers to me.

John

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