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

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:53:14 -0400
Message-ID: <B177464918EA4D8BADF081EE5C555093_at_greg323a964987>

Hi Larry,

The section of Route 17 she was on was about 4 or 5 miles south of Hwy 98.
Route 17 does wind around a bit at the location of sighting, and so does Hwy
98. She said they were heading north at that time so at least their
sighting, along with your friend's, should suggest material landed in the
state somewhere between Gainesville and Sebring (a huge area with lots of
lakes!).

A few more sightings put on the map I provided should start to put the
picture together (How about your witnesses, Eric?).

Best regards,
Greg

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----- Original Message -----
From: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>
To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>
Cc: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>; "Meteorite-list"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [2nd Sighting] Fireball in Florida Tuesday night


> 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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