[meteorite-list] 2012/02/01 TX Fireball Trajectory Solutions v1

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:57:55 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJak_qUE_X+dLJKCBa4P12so6Mogb4fDCN07KrqikirHe6Ov_A_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I've been working on the trajectory for this fireball, but i've been a
little discombobulated due to the mystery over Kevin's Hawley /
Coleman camera location. A friend forward'd me what I believe to be
the best location for Kevins camera and we suspect it is in coleman
and not hawley.

I am a lot happier with these solutions and want to share now that I'm
more confident.

I want to stress this is still just a v1 cut at the trajectories and
the calculations are based on manual solving of the allsky images,
which is an imperfect art form. So, this is probably wrong, but the
best calculated guess with available information.

I'm willing to share my values and KMZ with anyone who is interested
and I would actually like to compare notes with someone to make sure I
didn't make any major mis-calculations with regard to lat/long/az/el
values.

I will continue to work on this folding in good witness data.

Here are the maps:

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/2012-02-01-texas-fireball-trajectory-solutions/

Thanks,

Mike Hankey
Freeland MD
Received on Tue 07 Feb 2012 08:57:55 PM PST