[AZ-Observing] brilliant bolide near Tucson?!
- From: "Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)" <mrgalaxy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: haclist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:12:53 GMT
15480 Empire Rd.
Benson, AZ 85602
hm ph: 520-586-2244
I sure hope some of the meteor cameras were set up and observing at about
8:25pm tonight (Tuesday), especially in the Tucson area.
My wife, Arlene, and I were both driving our own cars home after meeting for
dinner and as we turned west onto our frontage road we both saw a spectacular
bolide going from around Aries to west of Cassiopeia in a NNW direction about
45 degrees up in the sky and traveling for about 45 degrees. It had a nice
orange head with greenish-white fragments falling off it. The skies were mostly
clear and the fireball appeared to be about the brightness of Venus, about -4
magnitude. It moved fairly slowly and lasted for several seconds, but I
couldn't detect any trail. Arlene described it as appearing to fall out of the
sky. We both saw it independently and couldn't talk about it until we got home
about 5 minutes after the event, but our basic observations agree surprisingly
well.
We both strongly suspect, if particles of it fell to the ground, they would
have fallen in the Marsh Station area near the base of the Rincon Mts. It would
be neat to hear if anybody else can triangulate from our information.
I don't know why it is, but I always see the best meteors when I'm driving...
Clear skies,
Wayne (aka Mr. Galaxy)
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