[meteorite-list] Green Fireball in Tempe, AZ.

From: Dennis Cox <dragon-hunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:22:13 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT135-ds18A6387C6CB01A26275AD48F070_at_phx.gbl>

It was most definitely caught on many cameras. I just saw it in a couple of
clips on CNN. The images they showed aren't very good. There are probably
better ones out there. But in the CNN clips, you can tell it was breaking up
into smaller pieces. And you can see the point at which it went into 'dark
flight'. I don't know, but from the video clips I saw, it looks like a few
pretty good sized chunks of something may have survived the trip through the
atmosphere. I hope there were enough pictures taken from different
perspectives to work out the trajectory, and possible impact zones.

Arizona might have a new happy hunting ground.

Dennis Cox

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From: "Erik Fisler" <phxerik at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 10:13 PM
To: "Meteorite List" <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>;
<minador at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Green Fireball in Tempe, AZ.

> Yes Mark that would be the time I was trying to describe, 7:45 local time.
> I posted right away within 3 minutes of seeing it.
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> [Erik]
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> From: Mark Bowling <minador at yahoo.com>
> To: Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Green Fireball in Tempe, AZ.
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> Erik,
> Do you mean 7:45 pm local time? About 10 minutes before your post?
>
> Very exciting - hopefully someone caught this one on camera!
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> From: Erik Fisler <phxerik at yahoo.com>
> To: Meteorite List <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:54 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Green Fireball in Tempe, AZ.
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> Hi list.
> I just went for a quick lap around my apartments at McClintock and
> University here in Tempe. I started at approx 7:45pm GMT and while I was
> running south I saw a vibrant green fireball streak, break up and then it
> went
> dark. Unfortunately I wasn't close enough to hear a sonic boom but I did
> hear a very soft pop like a bottle rocket far away. It appeared to be 25
> degrees West of South and was about 20-30 degrees from the horizon. It's
> was moving fairly slow so I assume it was far south. Can someone check
> Doppler? It must have had a better sighting further South like in Casa
> Grande or Tucson.
>
>
> [Erik]
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Received on Thu 15 Sep 2011 01:22:13 PM PDT