[meteorite-list] (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over Southern California, Arizona, and Southern Nevada

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:17:26 -0400
Message-ID: <CAJak_qUd6VXNRNcQDMfy7p28y3XVghGPuzGCgFs5HYWQc-_zAA_at_mail.gmail.com>

Jim,

Reports come into the AMS website and go directly into a database with
a PENDING status. A human being has to review the reports, assign an
event ID and then approve the event before it will show up on the
site. Bob Lunsford usually does this work. Bob doesn't get off work
today until 3:00 PM so I'm helping him out and reviewed and approved
them all just now.

Because we have the new system and everything is in a database I was
able to review and publish 100+ reports in 5 minutes. That puts 100
reviewed and approved reports onto the AMS site in about 14 hours
after the fall. That is pretty freaking good IMO!!!

Considering on the old AMS website, the process was manual and an
event of this size would have taken Bob Lunsford 10s of hours of HTML
labor to manually update the website, this is a major improvement. Not
sure if you remember but in the past with the manual reporting it
could take days or weeks before the logs would be updated as the
process was very time intensive for Bob.

I have been thinking about adding a section to the website where you
could see what is inside the 'unapproved queue'. This might be a nice
feature for folks who are eagerly waiting to see the reports of new
fireballs ;).

As you noted the reports are now available on the site. Should have
maps and trajectories in another hour or so.

For more information regarding the new AMS website please see this
post and check out the power point slides that illustrate the new
capabilities of the site and fireball reporting tools.

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/nasa-meteor-workshop-august-3-4-2011/

Thanks,

Mike

Thanks!

Mike

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Jim Wooddell <nf114ec at npgcable.com> wrote:
> Mike, how come it takes so long for the reports to appear on AMS? ?I looked
> last night and again this ?morning and nothing. ?Then suddenly there is over
> a 100??
>
> Kind regards!
>
> Jim Wooddell
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hankey" <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
> To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>;
> "meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 9:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over Southern
> California, Arizona, and Southern Nevada
>
>
>> This has made national news on MSNBC and CNN...
>>
>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44529188/ns/technology_and_science-space/
>>
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/15/southwest.strange.light/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
>>
>> AMS reports are now over 100.
>>
>> We should have maps of AMS witness reports plotted later today.
>>
>> This area is heavily covered with all sky camera, so there should be
>> some videos out there. I do not have time to chase camera operators to
>> ask them to look for video, but if anyone on the list feels like doing
>> this, have at it:
>>
>> http://allsky.ca/NAdatabase.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The American Meteor Society has been deluged with over 50 reports of a
>>> bright fireball occurring just before 20:00 PDT (also MST) on the evening of
>>> Wednesday September 14th. A quick look indicates maximum brightness equal to
>>> that of the full moon and possibly some fragmentation. I will not be able to
>>> post these to the AMS web site until later today, after I return home from
>>> work. If I can add any details after reading all the accounts, I will post
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Clear Skies!
>>>
>>> Robert Lunsford
>>> American Meteor Society
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