[meteorite-list] Meteor over northeastern Colorado on Wednesday night?

[Chris Peterson]

Not on any of our allsky cameras, which would have caught something like 
this over eastern Colorado or western Kansas.

Chris

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

On 5/11/2012 11:29 PM, Bob Loeffler wrote:
> HI all,
>
> A friend of mine was driving in Colorado on Wednesday night and saw what he
> thinks was a meteor.  He is a rockhound, not a meteorite collector (nor a
> meteor watcher), so his description below is not as educated as some others
> may be.  Did anyone see it?  Here is what he said:
>
> “Since you have been down 285 a lot also, just pretend you are between
> Fairplay and Jefferson...but closer to Jefferson going back to Denver... I
> suppose roughly heading due NE.  and then visualize Kenosha pass in the far
> distance...and you see this bright SLOW light...very big and then it dives
> behind the mountains there...looking through the area of the windshield in
> front of the passenger side of the front seat...so I and my friend saw it
> but she had a better view as I was driving, etc.  It was about 10 to 10:30
> p.m. Wednesday night and quite dark.  I saw it coming from a lower angle in
> the sky like about 30 degrees from the horizontal... and it was a long arc
> path... We saw it 3-5 seconds or so, long enough to stare at it a
> bit.....most shooting stars are so quick you will miss them if you are not
> staring in the right part of the sky...but this was much lower in the
> sky....not parallel with the ground but like an arc.”
>
> Does this sound like a meteor to you?  Or maybe an airplane?  The slowness
> could be because it was really far away, but the arcing of its path???  He
> told me in a different email that it was extremely bright.
>
> I looked at the American Meteor Society’s Fireball Reports page and found
> one (event 640) from a person in Longmont, CO and it sounds like she
> might’ve seen it too (same direction), but she didn’t put anything into the
> Notes.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob L