[meteorite-list] FW: Fireballs Here, Fireballs There

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:05 2004
Message-ID: <20030715231713.86576.qmail_at_web80505.mail.yahoo.com>

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:01:35 -0600
From: "Jill and Nevyn" <mirage_at_gilanet.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Fire Ball over the Gila

I don't know if this helps, but that fire ball also
had a very long tail. Now what was a bit odd, at
least to me, was that it looked as if the fire around
the ball was sort of being cast off. Like pieces of =
fire moving away from the ball itself. Actually that
really added to just how sepectaular it looked. There
is really no way for us to know exactly if it was
above or below, IF YOU conclude that you can see it =
through the clouds. In addition to the clouds there
is also a considerable amount of forest fire smoke
here. Now I know that most of you think we are just
mistaken about it being below those clouds. But it
you could have seen it with the clarity we did, and
the low 'looking appearance' you would swear on a
stack of bibles that that fire ball was
below those clouds.

At any rate above or below it leaves me with a
question for you scientific types. This is the second
one in 37 days traveling in about the same general
path as the one on June 8th. Is this common? If it
is then Jill and I have been missing out a LOT in our
59 years each on this planet. I think if I saw one
more on the same path I would have to say, hmmmmm this
is starting to get really weird.

Nev


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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:06:29 -0700
From: Ed Majden <epmajden_at_shaw.ca>
Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball Reports B.C. and Pacific
Northwest

    Please report bright fireball reports over British
Columbia, Canada and the Pacific North West to me.
I'm the un-official coordinator of the Sandia West
Coast Bolide Detection Network situated along
Vancouver Island and northern Washington State.
Please include your location, time of the event (state
the time zone you are in), and your contact
information in case a follow up is required.
With this information I can alert our all-sky camera
operators to check the video tapes to see if anything
has been recorded.
    Thanks for your cooperation.

Ed Majden - MIAC Associate
epmajden_at_shaw.ca
http://members.shaw.ca/epmajden/index.htm

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:00:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Morgan Blair (via Lew Gramer)
<Blair0218_at_aol.com>
Subject: (meteorobs) Fwd: Earth Grazing Daylight
Fireball of August 10, 1972

[Editor's Note:
 Morgan is not a current 'meteorobs' reader. If you
reply, please MANUALLY put 'blair0218_at_aol.com' in your
"Cc:". -Lew Gramer]

The article by Ceplecha in Astronomy and Astrophysics,
283 (1994) predicted that the object would likely
again come close to earth within the period of 1997
July 30 to August 18. Apparently it did not. Has there
been any re-analysis (or even serious interest)
since that time?

I would appreciate ANY information beyond that
article.

Thank you

Morgan Blair blair0218_at_aol.com

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:05:20 EDT
From: GeoZay_at_aol.com
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fire Ball over the Gila

- In a message dated 7/15/03 9:11:38 AM Pacific
Daylight Time,
mirage_at_gilanet.com writes:


> >>Now I know that most of you think we are just
mistaken about it being below those clouds. But it
you could have seen it with the clarity we did, and
the low 'looking appearance' you would swear on a
stack of bibles
that that fire ball was below those clouds. <<
>
> Okay....from your perspective, did the meteor appear

> to be low on the horizon, midway, or somewhat above
> your head?
> GeoZay


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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:13:34 -0600
From: "Jill and Nevyn" <mirage_at_gilanet.com>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fire Ball over the Gila

It was about half way between overhead and horizon.

Nevyn



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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:16:36 -0600
From: "Jim Gamble" <jagamble_at_sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fire Ball over the Gila

Here is a link to a movie of the Gila event as seen
from Sandia Labs near Albuquerque

  ftp://ftp.sandia.gov/outgoing/meteors/m030714a.mov
 
This image is from an all sky camera at the home base
of the Sandia Fireball Detection Network, of which I
am a part.. North is up and West is left in the movie.
Also, a JPEG composite flight image can be found by
going to

http://www.geocities.com/desert_lights/gila.html

Regards,
Jim Gamble
El Paso, Tx Station-Sandia Meteor Detection Network
All Sky Camera System
31.47.7.822N 106.18.18.770W
jagamble_at_sbcglobal.net
http://www.geocities.com/desert_lights

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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:06:00 -0400
From: <ksyo_at_bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fire Ball over the Gila

>At any rate above or below it leaves me with a
question for you scientific types. This is the second
one in 37 days traveling in about he same general path
as the one on June 8th. Is this common? If it is
then Jill and I have been missing out a LOT in our 59
years each on this planet. I think if I saw one >more
on the same path I would have
to say , hmmmmm this is starting to get really weird.

Nev

I'm not sure of the circumstances of your observation.
 Were you just
(a) casually looking up or
(b) were you actively observing meteors
(i.e. lying in a beach chair looking up at the sky for
more than an hour)?
Now, I'm not a scientific type, but if you answered
(a) consider yourself very fortunate. If (b) your
chances for seeing a fireball increase greatly. But
to see see two truely spectacular fireballs in just
over one month (not counting major shower nights) is
like hitting the jackpot..I'd say you were dealt a
very good hand by lady luck.

Kim Youmans

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