[meteorite-list] GA. Fireball spotted on 1/19/06 _at_ 10:55 pm.

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jan 24 17:26:47 2006
Message-ID: <046c01c62135$3a692370$f551040a_at_bellatrix>

Hi Mark-

It isn't all that strange. My cameras pick up quite a few big fireballs that
nobody ends up reporting (and here in Colorado, all the TV stations and
newspapers refer reports to me). Just a couple of weeks ago we had a very
large fireball right over Denver at 6:30 in the evening, and I only got two
reports.

The sad fact is, very few people ever look up.

The fireball you saw (while no doubt very impressive) sounds like a fairly
typical one. If you saw it come near the ground, it means if was far away-
probably at least 100 miles. There may have been more witnesses closer to
the event, assuming it wasn't over the ocean.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark A. Massey" <mark61_1998_at_yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] GA. Fireball spotted on 1/19/06 _at_ 10:55 pm.


> I guess nobody else saw this fireball that I mentioned in the
> previous e-mail. I will get the azimuth on Wednesday. I also
> submitted this to about 5 TV stations and 2 of the 5 meteorologists
> got back to me and never received a call. How strange is this???.
> Is there a web site that I could go to to see if this was
> documented?. It was white and in one piece and in the Eastern sky
> and lasted for 3-4 seconds. It came awfully close to the earth.....
Received on Tue 24 Jan 2006 05:26:32 PM PST