[meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA

Linton Rohr lintonius at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 8 01:53:47 EDT 2009


Good evening folks.
I just saw a post on Astromart from Mike Hankey of Freeland, Maryland 
concerning this fireball. He was shooting exposures of Andromeda and 
inadvertently captured the meteor. He was on the evening news, with his 
photo. This might be helpful in determining the trajectory, given the 
starfield and M31 as orientation. Andromeda must have been quite low at that 
hour. I'm surprised he was imaging it, but I'm glad he was!
I'll attach the text of his post. He can be contacted through his blog. Good 
luck guys!
Linton
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I took a picture of a big meteor over baltimore using my 90mm refractor and 
DSLR camera.

This picture got me on TV!
http://wjz.com/seenon/meteor.2.1074217.html (video on right hand side)

I want to try to figure out the trajectory of the meteor based on the 
picture I took, but i'm not sure how to do this or where to start.

I'm tracking this story on my blog

http://www.mikesastrophotos.com

Any help or tips with trying to determine the trajectory are greatly 
appreciated.




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