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

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:15:02 -0700
Message-ID: <4BB3C966.30900_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Hi Greg,

I have one report, and another I found online. I sent you an email.

Florida is my old stomping grounds! I'm from Jacksonville, and spent a
lot of time in Gainesville, Lake City, Middleburg area, so if you need
someone with a good familiarity with the area let me know...

Regards,
Eric


On 3/31/2010 2:53 PM, Greg Hupe wrote:
> 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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