[meteorite-list] Bright Fireball seen over southern Arizona tonight

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:42:13 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <997997.66834.qm_at_web33902.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

The MMT Observatory on top of Mt. Hopkins has an all sky camera that operates continually. At night the camera makes 10-second exposures.

Additionally they build all of the frames from each day and each night into an avi movie. I downloaded last night's file and grabbed the two frames in which the bolide appears. As you'll see, it was so bright it saturates the frame in the second exposure.

The image can be found here:

http://fullmoonphotography.net/images/Meteorites/Tucson_Bolide.jpg

and the MMT Sky Camera is found at:

http://skycam.mmto.arizona.edu/

There is several loops of some security camera footage that captured the terminal burst here:

http://tinyurl.com/nnv39d

(wait until after the commercial)

Finally, "Meteorite Man" and list member Geoff Notkin did an interview with local tv station KOLD 13 this morning. They put his interview together as one of their "60 second Science" pieces. It is available here:

http://tinyurl.com/luaoc5

(Again, wait until after the commercial)

Cheers

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Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
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Received on Thu 25 Jun 2009 03:42:13 AM PDT