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

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:22:06 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <5b8724f7cd12af52aecbfb06a485b31b.squirrel_at_webmail.lpl.arizona.edu>

Hi Greg:

Thanks for this information. From what I can tell Route 17 does not always
go true north, so is it possible that "north" is a little more toward the
west?

Maybe radar saw it.

Thanks again.

Larry

> 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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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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