[meteorite-list] 21SEP2010 Bolides over TX, NM, CO

From: Marc Fries <fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:08:19 -0700
Message-ID: <A2866AD1-7E24-429B-A4B1-2CD658BE847C_at_psi.edu>

Howdy

        I agree - I couldn't find anything in the radar data. The fireball terminus occurred at extreme range for two of the radars (Albuquerque and Cannon AFB) and was pretty much out of range of the Pueblo, CO radar. Ashcraft's video data shows the body breaking into at least three good-sized pieces before going dark, so it looks to me like there may be a small number of good-sized meteorites on the ground from this one. Now that Sandia has their video online, it should be possible to triangulate a position from the pair of videos. Basically I'm saying that the video data appears to be the best route towards recovering meteorites from this event.

Cheers,
Marc Fries


On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I checked for decaying satellites (due to the long duration of the
> event)
> but found no matches. I also checked the 3 nearest Doppler radars to
> Albuquerque, but nothing obvious shows up. Assuming this is a meteoroid,
> the entry angle was extremely shallow, which is bad news for trying to
> locate fragments since the uncertainty ellipse is huge.
>
> For those who haven't seen Tom Ashcraft's video, you can find it on
> SpaceWeather.com.
>
> --Rob
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