[meteorite-list] brilliant Utah fireball!!!

[Linton Rohr]

Greetings all,
I was treated to my best fireball ever last night, by a wide margin! I had 
got up at 4:00 and was lying there, about to fall asleep, when Karen started 
shouting to look. When I opened my eyes, the entire sky out our large, 
N/NE-facing windows was dazzling white! A moment later, a large, white, 
slow-moving fireball came into view at the top of our view.  I estimated it 
to be at least half the diameter of the moon and it had a long trail behind 
it, which Karen says had a green tint. Then it morphed into an orange 
fireball, with undulating flames trailing out perhaps 3 degrees behind it! A 
few small chunks fell from it, but for the most part, it remained intact 
until it cooled into dark flight. The whole show lasted about 5 or 6 
seconds, which will remain burned into my memory forever.
I usually compare bright meteors to Venus, but this one was more like the 
sun! It was traveling from N/NW to E/SE and descending at about a 5 to 10 
degree angle. It appeared to be right over Capitol Reef N.P., but was 
probably much further away... possibly over toward Moab or even western 
Colorado.
I'll be filing an AMS report on it and I'm hoping a lot of other people saw 
it.
Linton