[meteorite-list] Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:31 2004
Message-ID: <20030227192429.4649.qmail_at_web80406.mail.yahoo.com>

Recent Fireball Reports -
  still seeking reports of a sonic boom...

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meteorobs-digest Thursday, February 27 2003
Volume 04 : Number 1100


(meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin
Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin
Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin
(meteorobs) March NEBULA now on-line...

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:55:42 +0800
From: "Huan Meng" <meteorobs_menhu_at_hotmail.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and Tianjin

Yesterday, many amateur astronomers Tianjin (a city to
the southeast of Beijing) reported that they saw a big
fireball at 07h15m (LT, equivalent 23h15m UT).
The appearence of fireball was not seen, but ended at
about 20 degrees above the east horizon, and slightly
to the north. The fireball was at least -10mag...
It is said it brightened the whole sky and the train
lasted at least 15 minutes. No electrophonic or other
sounds was heard.

Today, I just got known some people in Beijing also
watched this phenomenon. The time was just 1 minutes
earlier, i.e. 07h14m LT. Observers in Beijing reported
the fireball appear at about 60 degrees above the east

horizon, from northwest to southeast, rushed with
medium speed. Someone said the fireball was even
brighter than the sun!

My mother was on the way to her company at that time.
While driving toward the west at 07h14m, she noticed
the sky was "suddenly brightened".
She's puzzled, but did see the bolide.

I'm now wondering if we can find any meteorite of this
fireball somewhere?
Any suggestion? or how to calculate the position of
it/them?
PS, the distance between Beijing and Tianjin was
precisely 120km.

Best wishes and Clear skies!

Huan

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 02:33:37 -0700
From: "Jim Gamble" <jagamble_at_sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and
Tianjin

Huan,
  Can you provide a date for this event. I know the
person who releases DOD (Department of Defense)
satellite data to the public and he may be able to
verify this event. Have you heard of any sightings
from people East of Tianjin. Thanks.
Regards,
Jim Gamble
El Paso, Tx Station-Sandia Meteor Detection Network
All Sky Camera System
31.47.7.822N 106.18.18.770W
gamble_at_peoplepc.com
http://www.geocities.com/desert_lights

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 19:35:24 +0800
From: "Huan Meng" <meteorobs_menhu_at_hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and
Tianjin

Jim,

Oh, sorry, it seemed I forgot the most important
information. ;-P
The date for this event was February 25/26. China uses
local time in +8 time zone, so, the precise time in UT
should be February 25th, 23h14m to 15m.

Tianjin is a port in north China, on the west coast of
Pacific. The east to that city was the sea, i'm afraid
no observer there...
Both Beijing and Tianjin has population over 10
million, and 07h15m was just in the rush hours. So,
perhaps we can find more witnesses (?).

Thanks you,
Kind regards,

Huan


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gamble" <jagamble_at_sbcglobal.net>
To: <meteorobs_at_atmob.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball over Beijing and
Tianjin


> Huan,
> Can you provide a date for this event. I know the
> person who releases DOD (Department of Defense)
> satellite data to the public and he may be able to
> verify this event.
> Have you heard of any sightings from people East
of
> Tianjin. Thanks.
> Regards,
> Jim Gamble
> El Paso, Tx Station-Sandia Meteor Detection Network
> All Sky Camera System
> 31.47.7.822N 106.18.18.770W
> gamble_at_peoplepc.com
> http://www.geocities.com/desert_lights
>

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:30:51 -0500
From: George Gliba <gliba_at_milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: (meteorobs) March NEBULA now on-line...

  The March 2003 issue of NEBULA, the monthly
newsletter of the NASA/Goddard Astronomy Club, is now
on-line at:
http://garc9.gsfc.nasa.gov/~astro/gac.html

GWG

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