[meteorite-list] Slow Moving Fireball Over North Carolina

From: Richard Montgomery <rickmont_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 17:24:57 -0700
Message-ID: <8899E405FF394AAEA2DDAF75A176207B_at_bosoheadPC>

FLASH!!! All sales of slow-moving 10:35 Eastern Daylight Savings Time
fireballs are hereby suspended....and will remain so, until an additional
swath of abdomenal hairy meteoritic hammer-hair grows back. This is no
April Fools joke....seriously!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>
To: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>; "Jim Wooddell"
<nf114ec at npgcable.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow Moving Fireball Over North Carolina


> OK - you definitely want the time and date. The time was 10:35am Eastern
> Daylight Savings Time - on APRIL 01, 2012.
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> Sooooo........
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> HAPPY APRIL FOOLINGS DAY!!!
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> ;-)
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> I do apologize for this, but what I said was partly true. There was
> indeed a slow moving fireball moving east to west that lit things up as
> bright as day - it was the Sun.
>
> You can partly blame Mike Gilmer for inspiring me to do this by bringing
> his Sylacauga hair post back to life. I think he's used that twice now -
> right, Mike?
>
> For those outside of the US who do not celebrate this great tradition of
> April Fooling, I offer a second apology. I think I had one or two people
> going with this one.
>
> Ed
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart McDaniel" <actionshooting at carolina.rr.com>
> To: "Jim Wooddell" <nf114ec at npgcable.com>; "Ed Deckert"
> <edeckert at triad.rr.com>; <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow Moving Fireball Over North Carolina
>
>
>>I have had a couple recorded over the past week, but like Jim said I need
>>a time.
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>> *****************************
>> Stuart McDaniel
>> Lawndale, NC
>> Secr.,
>> Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
>>
>> IMCA #9052
>> Sirius Meteorites
>>
>> http://spacerocks.weebly.com
>> *********************************
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Wooddell
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:59 PM
>> To: Ed Deckert ; Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Slow Moving Fireball Over North Carolina
>>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> It would help to have a date and exact time.
>>
>> Even if the cameras do not capture anything, an operator can go back and
>> make a movie (Sandia./NMSU network) for the time stated to determine if
>> there was anything out side of what triggers the recording to take place.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> Jim Wooddell
>> http://k7wfr.us
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ed Deckert" <edeckert at triad.rr.com>
>> To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:06 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Slow Moving Fireball Over North Carolina
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi List,
>>>
>>> I wanted to report on a personally witnessed, very slow-moving fireball
>>> over central North Carolina, USA. The fireball - so bright that it
>>> illuminated the entire area as far as I could see. Please believe me
>>> when I say that it was as bright as day outside! Never before have I
>>> seen anything any brighter.
>>>
>>> Explosions were not heard, nor were there any break-ups witnessed. The
>>> fireball appeared first in the eastern sky, with a trajectory taking it
>>> almost perfectly west. Color was a bright white, perhaps slightly
>>> yellowish. I believe that I can say it was definitely not space junk.
>>>
>>> Anyone have anything on their all-sky cameras? Doppler reports? Other
>>> sightings? This thing was HUGE, and I doubt that I was the only one to
>>> witness it. Although I have not heard anything on the local news
>>> channel. Very strange since they manage to report on ingrown toenails,
>>> and poison ivy rash inflicted on local residents.
>>>
>>> If anyone can collaborate, it would be appreciated. This has the
>>> potential to be something really big!
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Ed Deckert
>>>
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