[meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <009b01c3457e$66a52280$5acc43d8_at_malcolm>

It is written,
"IR sensors aboard US DOD satellites detected the impact of a bolide over
Park Forest, Illinois, on 27 March 2003 at 05:50:26 UTC. The object
traveled from the SW to the NE on a heading of 22.3 degrees, with a
flight path angle of 62.3 degrees from the local horizontal."

Ok, Now we know the exact time of the PF fall. Can anyone convert this to
PF's local time?

Thanks, Tom
Peregrineflier
The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
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From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park
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>
> http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/usaf/dod231.txt
>
> Fireball Detection
> Department of Defense Announcement
> (courtesy of Peter Brown)
> July 7, 2003
>
> IR sensors aboard US DOD satellites detected the impact of a bolide over
> Park Forest, Illinois, on 27 March 2003 at 05:50:26 UTC. The object
> traveled from the SW to the NE on a heading of 22.3 degrees, with a
> flight path angle of 62.3 degrees from the local horizontal.
> The straight line intersection of the flight path with the ground was at
> 41.56 North latitude, 87.67 West longitude. It was possible to derive a
> velocity for the object of 20 +/- 1 km/sec. The impact was simultaneously
> detected by space based visible wavelength sensors operated by the US
> Department of Energy. From these sensors the total radiated energy was
> estimated at 1.4 X 10^11 joules.
>
>
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