[meteorite-list] Central Florida bolide of 30 March 2010

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:38:32 -0700
Message-ID: <4BB3CEE8.4010709_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Just as a side note. Like I said in my last email. I'm from that area.
If it landed SE of Gainesville you're looking at a possible fall in
Ocala area, that HUGE area is mostly National forest! Not only that it's
super thick with palmetto and pine forests, lakes, and swamps. Good luck
out there! Watch for moccasins and cottonmouth, oh yeah and gators too.

You'll also have to consider Camp Blanding Army base and Cecil Field,
Jennings State park if it fell further north. The area out toward Lake
Butler and Baldwin are country and farming. There's lot of dairy farms
and soy bean/corn farmers out that way. There is big paper mill on 301
and 218. They own a large swath of land in the area. This is all planted
pine in neat little rows. I know during hunting season they used to open
the area to deer hunters. Not sure if they still do that, but it's worth
a try to contact them if it turns out it fell there. Let's hope!

Hope it didn't land in the drink with all those tiny lakes between
Keystone Heights and Ocala.

Regards,
Eric



On 3/31/2010 3:12 PM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> I agree with your interpretation -- since fragmentation was witnessed
> in Gainesville, and not in Sebring, all things being equal I would
> place the fall closer to Gainesville. (An exception might be if the
> Gainesville observer could see closer to the geometric horizon than
> could the Sebring driver.)
>
> As for direction, County Rd. 17 (southeast of Sebring) occasionally
> heads to the NW rather than due north, and since the due north
> direction would not intersect the line-of-sight of the Gainesville
> observer, I'm inclined to believe she was on a portion of the road
> that was heading NW or NNW at the time of the fall.
>
> I'm guessing the fall would be somewhere in the vicinity of Ocala.
> I'll check the real-time Doppler radar data to see if anything is
> there. (I'm expecting nothing will show up.) The higher-quality,
> multi-elevation-angle Doppler data will be available starting
> tomorrow, and I can check it then. --Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Greg
> Hupe
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 2:46 PM
> To: GeoZay at aol.com; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] [2nd Sighting] Fireball in Florida
> Tuesdaynight
>
> Hey GeoZay,
>
> "About how bright and how many seconds did this event last and about
> how long of a trail?"
>
> I asked if the sky lit up and she said, "Not really, but before it
> disappeared [below the horizon], it became brighter." I asked if she saw
> it break into several pieces and she said, "No." Larry's witness saw it
> fall into several pieces so this is why I think it would be more north
> from where my Sebring witness saw it.
>
> Best regards,
> Greg
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