[meteorite-list] [2nd Sighting] Fireball in Florida Tuesday night

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:06:28 -0400
Message-ID: <E8FF7D10B03F4B50A90CAD35D1C6F85A_at_greg323a964987>

Hello All,

I interviewed someone today in Florida (in person) who witnessed last
night's fireball in Florida. Here are the coordinates from where this person
witnessed it near Sebring, FL:
 27?23'48.91"N
 81?24'4.84"W

This lady and her husband were driving north on County Road 17 just south of
Sebring. She confirmed, along with her husband on the phone, that it fell
around 9:30 pm straight down (towards north), but slightly to the right
(east). They saw the fireball moving and then "light up" before disappearing
on the horizon. They did not see it fall into pieces like Larry's friend did
up in Gainesville so It fell closer to Gainesville opposed to Sebring.

Here is a link to an image I put together using Larry's witness report and
mine to show fall directions from these two witnesses . I tried to load on a
Google Earth satellite image but after re-installing everything on my
computer last week, I can not make Google Earth work properly. I am trying
Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, but neither seems to let me use the
Push-Pin option while viewing in satellite view. No time to mess with it
now, have to pack for a trip somewhere else, leaving tomorrow.
http://www.lunarrock.com/floridafireball3-30-10/florida3-30-10.jpg

I would check for radar images from Ocala, Orlando, Tampa and Lakeland.

Best regards,
Greg

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From: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
Cc: "Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:33 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] FIreball in Florida Tuesday night


Hi Everyone:

A friend of mine (Greg Beckner) in Gainsville, FL just sent me this. He
was out with a group of scouts and saw the following (second paragraph):

I took my Cub Scout pack to the model airplane field last night & showed
them a few R/C aircraft. A sidebar to that is the field is several miles
out of town and has a good view of the horizon and darker skies, so I also
took the telescope. We saw Mercury about 5 deg from Venus last night & a
few deep sky objects at the last part of Astronomical twilight & before
moon came up.

Around 9:30 local time, while packing up, I saw the most impressive
fireball meteor almost directly to the south. It started like an Iridium
flare, but just got brighter & brighter. It was close
enough where you could see a flame structure and fragments breaking off.
Will the next "Meteorite Men" episode be filmed here??? So far, nothing
in paper yet. Is there something that keeps track of such events? I'm
sure we weren't the only ones seeing it (*it scared the crap out of my
kids!!!)


Here's GPS cords of flying field - I was looking Almost Due South - maybe
just a
little to the East of due South. Time was perhaps between 9:20 & 9:40pm
EDT. Path of the object was almost straight down & it was about 35 deg
up...

N 29? 31' 07"
W 082? 33' 32"

Larry

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