[AZ-Observing] Re: Meteor or was it Something Else?
- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 06:23:45 -0700
A flare should be fairly easy to check. I would think that if it was we
would be getting a few reports from around the state every week about these
objects...
(BTW - Hi Andrew, haven't heard from you in a while!)
Jimmy Ray
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Meteor or was it Something Else?
Sounds like an Iridium Flare
Andrew
Neville Cole wrote:
> Did anyone here witness the bright so-called fireball visible over Arizona
> on Sunday night? (I didn't)
>
> >From the article in the Arizona Republic today, the eyewitnesses talk
about
> what sounds like something that's considerably slower moving than any
meteor
> I've ever seen or heard of.
>
> Jeff Hartman of Ahwatukee reported it was moving about the width of a
human
> hand per second across the sky.
>
> I've witnessed both a fireball and re-entering space junk. While it's
true
> that the fireball I witnessed crossed the sky more slowly than your
> typically fast meteor, it still was pretty fast as it crossed the entire
sky
> in 2 or 3 seconds. The speed of the space junk I witnessed re-entering
was
> more like Jeff Hartman described, but probably even slower.
>
> Neville
>
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