[AZ-Observing] Info re bright green fireball Sunday morning

At 06:00 AM 11/19/2001, you wrote:

>Just wondering if anyone else saw an object burning in at about 6 am.  It 
>was several miles north of Sentinel and was moving west to east.  It 
>flashed several times and appeared to be burning green, which seemed a bit 
>unusual to me.  I didn't think to get an exact azimuth, but it did appear 
>to continue burning until it was very low.  I would say that it appeared 
>to impact, but I can't be 100% sure.

Chuck,

That burning (re-entering?) object was much farther than that. I saw it 
from a location near Wikiup, southeast of Kingman, more than 100 miles 
north of you, and it was relatively low even from there. I have a photo 
that shows it crossing about 10 degrees below Polaris, flashing mostly 
green, and along the main flash streak there are 12 visible burst points 
where it flared brighter. I did a quick-and-lousy scan of it; see

http://www.astrophotographer.com/Green_W-E_fireball.jpg

The original photo I have has far more detail, showing horizon clouds 
illuminated green by the flare, foreground terrain, and background stars. 
With that, the exact location from which it was photographed and maybe some 
other observations it should be possible to pin down something of its 
trajectory and fall point, which would be an interesting, if perhaps 
somewhat quixotic, project.

I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who saw this object; contact me 
privately and let's see if we can pool our information and figure out 
something about it.


Wil Milan
http://www.astrophotographer.com/
"The heavens declare the glory of God
And the firmament proclaims His handiwork."
   -- Psalm 19:1

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