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

From: Mark Langenfeld <mlangen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <200307081845.h68Ijedo057707_at_mail3.mx.voyager.net>

That would be 11:50:26 PM on March 26, local time/date.

Mark

> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:17 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide
Over Park
> Forest
>
>
> >
> > 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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