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

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <002c01c34582$3c556400$b531ef42_at_computer>

Yes, 11:50 PM just like we have all been saying with only a couple
exceptions.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom aka James Knudson" <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over
Park Forest


> 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>
> To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> 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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