[meteorite-list] Meteorite Central in batch-delivery mode for everyone?

[Matson, Robert]

Hi All,

 

Meteorite Central has been acting up all week with posts showing up in
batches

of 20 or more at a time, often delayed by days and/or repeated.  At the
risk of

sending another message into the internet wormhole, here is a resend of
my

now somewhat dated post from last night:

 

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Originally sent:  3/1/2007 10:20pm PST

 

Hi All,

 

Was out getting the mail and was treated to a nice fireball

descending and moving right-to-left, starting in Cassiopeia in

the northwest.  The particulars in case someone else in the

southern California area saw it:

 

Date:  3/1/2007

Time:  8:25 pm PST

Location:  Irvine, CA (33.631N, 117.817W)

Starting azimuth:  320 +/- 5

Starting elevation:  22 +/- 2 deg

Ending azimuth:  295 +/- 5

Ending elevation:  12 deg +/- 1 deg

Duration:  3-4 seconds

Speed:  on the slow side

Brightness:  -7 to -8

Color:  orange

Comments:  no fragmentation, but a "thick" meteor track

about a quarter-degree wide in the cross-track direction.

 

No sonic booms heard any time in the following 4 minutes.

I'm about 90% sure I heard electrophonic hissing coincident

with the visible display.  I can't be 100% sure, but it may

have been the hissing that prompted me to turn and see the

meteor.  I was standing near a tree, a metal light poll, and

the somewhat large metal box containing all the mailboxes

for my end of the street.

 

--Rob

 

 

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