[meteorite-list] Fw: brilliant bolide near Tucson?!

From: Mark Bowling <minador_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:47:26 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <56038.38704.qm_at_web54505.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

This didn't go through in HTML.? I dislike how Yahoo mail goes in and out of plain text depending on type of message you are trying to forward....

Anyways, I'm hoping this will be the 3rd AZ fall!!


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Subject: Fw: brilliant bolide near Tucson?!


More sightings from last night...? In private correspondance, Wayne indicated that another TAAA couple were west of Tucson and saw it (west of them), so it may have fallen on the Rez...? Hopefully not.

Clear skies (and go get them!).

Mark B.
Vail, AZ



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From: Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy) <mrgalaxy at juno.com>
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Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 9:12:53 PM
Subject: [TAAA] brilliant bolide near Tucson?!
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15480 Empire Rd.
Benson, AZ 85602
I sure hope some of the meteor cameras were set up and observing at about 8:25pm tonight (Tuesday), especially in the Tucson area.
My wife, Arlene, and I were both driving our own cars home after meeting for dinner and as we turned west onto our frontage road we both saw a spectacular bolide going from around Aries to west of Cassiopeia in a NNW direction about 45 degrees up in the sky and traveling for about 45 degrees. It had a nice orange head with greenish-white fragments falling off it. The skies were mostly clear and the fireball appeared to be about the brightness of Venus, about -4 magnitude. It moved fairly slowly and lasted for several seconds, but I couldn't detect any trail. Arlene described it as appearing to fall out of the sky. We both saw it independently and couldn't talk about it until we got home about 5 minutes after the event, but our basic observations agree surprisingly well.
We both strongly suspect, if particles of it fell to the ground, they would have fallen in the Marsh Station area near the base of the Rincon Mts. It would be neat to hear if anybody else can triangulate from our information.
I don't know why it is, but I always see the best meteors when I'm driving...

Clear skies,
Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)
Received on Wed 10 Feb 2010 10:47:26 AM PST