[meteorite-list] Bolide over Denver.

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:19:25 -0700
Message-ID: <042401c71b1f$4d6d8df0$2721500a_at_bellatrix>

This wasn't on our cameras, because they had shut down for dawn just
minutes before. But I've received a lot of witness reports because of
all the Denver news coverage. This was a large, but not extraordinary
fireball. All the attention here is just because it happened at commute
hour and a lot of people saw it. There were at least five fireballs over
Colorado last night, including a very impressive one at 03:37 that was
caught on three cameras.

Most reports have been from along the Front Range, and generally all
point in the same direction. Comparing those with reports from Crested
Butte and Silt suggests this terminated somewhere north of the Grand
Mesa. Can't do much better than that with what I've got so far. Some of
the news sources out west will probably pick up on the story tonight and
tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get more reports from that direction. It was
seen as far west as Salt Lake City.

Both western witnesses saw it break up while it was traveling slowly
enough to glow orange. That means it could have dropped some meteorites.
Not much chance of finding anything, however, except by blind luck.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Bolide over Denver.


> Here is the only report I have seen so far (Thanks to Ron Pearson)
>
> http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=639b9291-
> 0abe-421a-01ef-cdaa7f7efc78&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-
> c589c01ca7bf
>
> Anybody jumping in cars or planes to come look?? :-)
>
> Anne M. Black
Received on Fri 08 Dec 2006 06:19:25 PM PST