My wife's grandson in Temple TX saw it, and it had a definite tail. Blew his 12 year old mind. On Feb 2, 2012, at 18:23, "Benjamin Monjay" <ke7dkg@gmail.com> wrote: > It might be due to the quality of the camera and the fact that the iris was > probably closed pretty tight due to the bright lights. That's my best guess. > > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Chris Zietkiewicz <mtnresearch@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Thank you for posting. >> >> Yes, a fireball over Texas; I read a few witness reports this morning (some >> posted below). >> >> This is a strangest looking fireball video I have ever seen; slow but very >> bright (magnitude -13) without a prominent plasma tail. Can anyone >> speculate why "white plasma" debris is not observed trailing from a >> reentering object this bright? >> >> Chris Zietkiewicz >> >> >>> From www.spaceweather.com >> >> Eye-witness Daryn Morran reports: "At approximately 756pm CST, over >> Abilene, >> Texas, I saw an object falling from the sky much brighter and long-lasting >> than anything I've seen. [The fireball] lasted close to 8 secs before >> completely burning out. At first, it was bright white, and then started >> slowing down and getting brighter. Then it exploded like a firecracker >> artillery shell into several pieces, flickered a few more times and then >> slowly burned out... awesome!!!" >> >> Another observer in Coppell, Texas, reported a "double boom heard at >> 8:00:30 >> CST. [The object appeared to be] 1/2 the size of the waxing moon, and broke >> into two major chucks with many smaller pieces. It had a 'white plasma' >> (sun-colored) look with a long golden tail." (This report was relayed by >> NWS >> meteorologist Joe Harrris in Frt Worth.) >> >> According to Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, this was >> probably a natural object--a small asteroid about the size of a car or >> bus--not a decaying satellite or other manmade space debris. The fireball, >> which disintegrated in the general vicinity of Dallas-Fort Worth, was >> bright >> enough to be seen on NASA cameras located in New Mexico more than 500 miles >> away. "It was about as bright as the full Moon (astronomical magnitude >> -13)," estimates Cooke, who is still analyzing data and sighting reports in >> hopes of calculating the object's orbit. He might yet figure out where the >> Texas fireball came from. Stay tuned for updates. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: seesat-l-bounces+mtnresearch=gmail.com@satobs.org >> [mailto:seesat-l-bounces+mtnresearch=gmail.com@satobs.org] On Behalf Of >> Jesus Leonardo Pacheco Fajardo >> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:15 PM >> To: seesat-l@satobs.org >> Subject: Fireball over Texas >> >> >> A fireball was observed by a police car camera last night >> >> >> http://www.spaceweather.com/images2012/02feb12/dashcam.mov?PHPSESSID=9esf2fd >> pkuumlcs7dkva6350f3 >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120202/9dee >> 10f1/attachment.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120202/c0cc6e34/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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