[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: <006301c3459c$4fd66050$629fe70c_at_GOLIATH> · Nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com

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Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom aka James Knudson" <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
To: "Steve Witt" <stelor96_at_yahoo.com>; "Rob Wesel" <Nakhladog@comcast.net>
Cc: "Meteorite-List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over
Park Forest
> 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
> > > ------------------
> > > We are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
> > > Willy Wonka, 1971
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- 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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