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

From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:57:06 -0400
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Hi Gracie,

By what the two witnesses so far have reported, I would give it an excellent
chance of having produced meteorites, but finding them is a whole different
story unless one hit something and was found!

Best regards,
Greg

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----- Original Message -----
From: "gracie" <gracie at sheverb.com>
To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe at htn.net>
Cc: <lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu>; "Meteorite-list"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [2nd Sighting] Fireball in Florida Tuesday
night


> Greg and Larry,
>
> I'm actually in Gainesville, though I missed the sighting last night. No
> rains are expected soon . . Adam, do you think there might actually be
> stones on the ground?
>
> Larry, about your question regarding keeping track of fireballs, I'd
> recommend you or your friend create an report over at the American Meteor
> Society (http://www.amsmeteors.org/).
>
> I'll also be keeping an eye out here for local reports and ask everyone I
> know here if they saw anything.
>
> How exciting!
> Gracie
>
>
>
>
>> 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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