Hey Ed, That was the brightest meteor I have ever seen! I recorded the time as 04:05:19 UT Aug 2. It was in my south (30 deg up) and moving from my upper left to my lower right and passed through the lower third of Scopius. I saw two brilliant, pure green (copper?) flashes. The first one I thought was lightning! When I look at the site I caught the first flash's orange plasma trail and then caught the second flash as it went behind my house. If you think you have good position information we may be able to triangulate position in height and location. Regards, Jeff Umbarger Plano, TX USA Lat: +33.06946 (N) Lon: -96.76807 (W) UTC-5 --- Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > Last night (04:05:09 August 2 UTC) there was a very > bright fireball > event over central Texas. I was fortunate enough to > see it myself! > > Some sourse has told a local TV station that it may > have been a > 14-year-old Cosmos rocket. I'm not sure which > object they are > considering, but I'm sure it was a natural meteor. > But just to > cover bases, might there have been a space-junk > re-entry possibly > visible over central Texas last night, northbound? > > Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked > Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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