[meteorite-list] GA. Fireball spotted on 1/19/06 @ 10:55 pm.

[Chris Peterson]

Hi Mark-

It isn't all that strange. My cameras pick up quite a few big fireballs that 
nobody ends up reporting (and here in Colorado, all the TV stations and 
newspapers refer reports to me). Just a couple of weeks ago we had a very 
large fireball right over Denver at 6:30 in the evening, and I only got two 
reports.

The sad fact is, very few people ever look up.

The fireball you saw (while no doubt very impressive) sounds like a fairly 
typical one. If you saw it come near the ground, it means if was far away- 
probably at least 100 miles. There may have been more witnesses closer to 
the event, assuming it wasn't over the ocean.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark A. Massey" <mark61_1998 at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] GA. Fireball spotted on 1/19/06 @ 10:55 pm.


 > I guess nobody else saw this fireball that I mentioned in the
> previous e-mail.  I will get the azimuth on Wednesday.  I also
> submitted this to about 5 TV stations and 2 of the 5 meteorologists
> got back to me and never received a call.  How strange is this???.
> Is there a web site that I could go to to see if this was
> documented?.  It was white and in one piece and in the Eastern sky
> and lasted for 3-4 seconds.  It came awfully close to the earth.....