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

From: Marc Fries <fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:18:23 -0400
Message-ID: <D9039227-558C-42AC-8A58-7F45ACB1E91D_at_psi.edu>

Very nice work, Mike, and the improvements are very much appreciated!

Cheers,
Marc Fries

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:44 PM, "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mike!
>
> I plotted several of the reports. I posted on CSR and the Desertsunburn group. Really need a couple of sightings from New Mexico to help out the picture! Looking forward to your plot and thanks for your good work.
> It is going in a direction I did not expect.
>
> Jim Wooddell
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hankey" <mike.hankey at gmail.com>
> To: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>
> Cc: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>; "meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (meteorobs) Major Fireball Over Southern California, Arizona, and Southern Nevada
>
>
> 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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