[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: <004201c3459b$13b85200$9bc843d8_at_malcolm>

Hello List, an easy explanation, on the ground looking up, it would be SE to
NW, but from a satellite looking down it would be NW to SE. : )
Thanks, Tom
Peregrineflier
The proudest member of the IMCA 6168
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Witt <stelor96_at_yahoo.com>
To: Rob Wesel <Nakhladog_at_comcast.net>
Cc: Meteorite-List <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over
Park Forest


> Rob,
>
> All of the eyewitnesses I interviewed indicated a SE to NW flight
> path.
>
> Steve
>
>
> --- Rob Wesel <Nakhladog_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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,
> > --
> > Rob Wesel
> > ------------------
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> >
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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