Hi gang, Sorry for the late post on Friday's fireball. This weekend was my 34th wedding anniversary so I guess that I have somewhat of an excuse. I can see Guy's retort now, and will be disappointed if I don't get one... B) My daughter was up walking with her friend in the neighborhood near Ogden when they both saw the object. She called me later that day at work and asked what it might be. She reported that it emitted different colors. Along with white she said it was emitting orange sparkles as it went and had a tail like a small comet but moved quickly behind the mountains to the East. Saturday I was scanning the Ham bands on my 2 meter rig and a lady from SLC described the same thing so that confirmed what my daughter saw. Then yesterday (Sunday) my oldest son said that he was driving to work and saw the same fireball. He was up Weber Canyon by Mountain Green and said that it had the same kind of orange sparkler effect. Jeez, my kids don't sleep anymore than I do... B) Two observations in one family has to be unusual, eh? Tnx es 73 de n7zi Gary "Why buy something for ten bucks when you can make it for a hundred." JR ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Wiggins" <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:01 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Friday fireball
On 08 Dec 2006, at 17:40, Chuck Hards wrote:
Did any list members see the daylight fireball reported today? Patrick, I heard you and a Stansbury resident on KSL but didn't catch if you yourself saw it... No, I didn't see it. It came down just after I went to bed. I didn't know about it until various media started calling about 4 hours later.
However Steven Christiansen reported:
Object: Meteorite Color: Changing color, white to yellow to greenish/blue Magnitude: About -4.5 (or brighter) Time of Observation: 6:43 AM (MST), Friday December 12, 2006 Length of Observation: About 5 seconds (total time from appearance to disappearance) Direction: Moving from NW to SE Other interesting features: long, "flickering" tail about 5 to 10 times the length of the meteorite itself.
Is this the same one that was reported seen over Colorado? That's my understanding.
pw
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