[meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <200307081817.LAA07790_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/usaf/dod231.txt

Fireball Detection
Department of Defense Announcement
(courtesy of Peter Brown)
July 7, 2003

IR sensors aboard US DOD satellites detected the impact of a bolide over
Park Forest, Illinois, on 27 March 2003 at 05:50:26 UTC. The object
traveled from the SW to the NE on a heading of 22.3 degrees, with a
flight path angle of 62.3 degrees from the local horizontal.
The straight line intersection of the flight path with the ground was at
41.56 North latitude, 87.67 West longitude. It was possible to derive a
velocity for the object of 20 +/- 1 km/sec. The impact was simultaneously
detected by space based visible wavelength sensors operated by the US
Department of Energy. From these sensors the total radiated energy was
estimated at 1.4 X 10^11 joules.
Received on Tue 08 Jul 2003 02:17:50 PM PDT