[meteorite-list] Bright Fireball seen over southern Arizona tonight

[Greg Catterton]

Thanks for the update, It would be nice to have another US fall.
Pictures are also nice. I think having pictures and video of falls make it all the more special to have a sample of in collections.

Greg C.

--- On Thu, 6/25/09, Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bright Fireball seen over southern Arizona tonight
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 3:42 AM
> 
> The MMT Observatory on top of Mt. Hopkins has an all sky
> camera that operates continually. At night the camera makes
> 10-second exposures.
> 
> Additionally they build all of the frames from each day and
> each night into an avi movie. I downloaded last night's file
> and grabbed the two frames in which the bolide appears. As
> you'll see, it was so bright it saturates the frame in the
> second exposure.
> 
> The image can be found here:
> 
> http://fullmoonphotography.net/images/Meteorites/Tucson_Bolide.jpg
> 
> and the MMT Sky Camera is found at:
> 
> http://skycam.mmto.arizona.edu/
> 
> There is several loops of some security camera footage that
> captured the terminal burst here:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/nnv39d
> 
> (wait until after the commercial)
> 
> Finally, "Meteorite Man" and list member Geoff Notkin did
> an interview with local tv station KOLD 13 this morning.
> They put his interview together as one of their "60 second
> Science" pieces. It is available here:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/luaoc5
> 
> (Again, wait until after the commercial)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> http://fullmoonphotography.net
> IMCA #1081
> 
> 
> 
> 
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