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

From: Rob Wesel <Nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <001201c3457e$bd4ecdc0$629fe70c_at_GOLIATH>

The distribution from Olympia Fields/Park Forest to Steger/Beecher would
argue that the flight path was NW to SE or vice versa. The larger masses in
the Olympia Fields area would support the former. If they are correct I was
searching the wrong side of every building. Please enlighten,

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Rob Wesel
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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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