Re: Fireball or re-entry?

David Mullenix (djmullen@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:01:46 -0600

We had a fireball shoot over southern Wisconsin heading from West to East at
the same time.  Probably the same one.

Darwin Teague wrote:

> I'm located in central Indiana, 85 degrees forty minutes west, 40 degrees 5
> minutes north. At 7:05 pm eastern, I saw a VERY bright fireball of some
> sort pass from west to east. I estimate when I first saw it, it was about
> 40 degrees up in the northwest (I was looking for MIR). It passed due north
> of me at about 30 degrees and "set" in the northeast. It was EXTREMELY
> bright, fluctuated in brightness and had a very bright and long tail. After
> passing the tail diminished and disappeared, but I could still see 3 or 4
> bright "spots" trailing one another until it set. It seemed to slow
> somewhat as passed also.
>
> Was this a Leonid or a satellite decay?
>
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