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

From: Steve Witt <stelor96_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004
Message-ID: <20030708213743.79308.qmail_at_web9602.mail.yahoo.com>

Rob,

All of the eyewitnesses I interviewed indicated a SE to NW flight
path.

Steve


--- Rob Wesel <Nakhladog_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> The distribution from Olympia Fields/Park Forest to Steger/Beecher
> would
> argue that the flight path was NW to SE or vice versa. The larger
> masses in
> the Olympia Fields area would support the former. If they are
> correct I was
> searching the wrong side of every building. Please enlighten,
> --
> Rob Wesel
> ------------------
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:17 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide
> Over Park
> Forest
>
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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Received on Tue 08 Jul 2003 05:37:43 PM PDT