Darn, I missed it. But Valentine's evening at 8 PM I was otherwise engaged. ;-) On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Mark Shelton <astroshelton@yahoo.com>wrote:

Last Night around 8pm he calls me up and said he was looking at something in the night sky. It was glowing like the end of a cigarette. It was up by the moon and heading west. He garbed is Bino's and got a good look at it. Then called me. I never saw it at all. He said it was moving about as fast as the shuttle does across the sky. This is about the same time that the meteor came down in Russia. We are thinking he was looking at the Meteor as it was just entering the atmosphere on its way to the ground. Did anyone else see something simular? Is this possible to see it here and then it goes to ground in Russia?

Otherwise? Noun, verb, or adjective? hehe 73 ______. But Valentine's evening at 8 PM I was otherwise engaged. ;-)

I'm going to respectfully suggest that what your friend saw was _not_ the Chelyabinsk fireball. A straight line path between the Wasatch Front and the Ural Mountains requires a northerly, not westward, trajectory. Most significantly, the Urals are about 6,500 miles as the crow flies from us. At ~35,000 mph that means that to be seen from Utah and then fall on Chelyabinsk this meteoroid would have to be passing through our atmosphere for more than ten minutes. Look at the videos of the event - you can see that the meteor is incandescent for a matter of seconds, not minutes. Whatever your friend saw, it wasn't the Russian fireball. Just my two cents, Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Mark Shelton Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:26 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteor damage in Russia Hi all, I have a friend I teach with and he is a amateur astronomer also, Some of you might have got to see is very old telescope last summer at Wheeler Farm. All brass from the 1930's. Last Night around 8pm he calls me up and said he was looking at something in the night sky. It was glowing like the end of a cigarette. It was up by the moon and heading west. He garbed is Bino's and got a good look at it. Then called me. I never saw it at all. He said it was moving about as fast as the shuttle does across the sky. This is about the same time that the meteor came down in Russia. We are thinking he was looking at the Meteor as it was just entering the atmosphere on its way to the ground. Did anyone else see something simular? Is this possible to see it here and then it goes to ground in Russia? Mark ________________________________ From: Kelly Ricks <kellyalenericks@gmail.com> To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteor damage in Russia Here's the story I read. http://www.weather.com/news/meteor-hits-earth-20130215 Features some compelling pictures of the fireball, contrail, and damage resulting from the explosion. According to this, the fragments of the fireball fell into a reservoir...I wonder if any hit elsewhere and might be found. ~Kelly

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Message: 5 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:18:30 -0700 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy         <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Meteor damage in Russia? Message-ID: <1269B649-4B4E-4F32-B2C2-E4B7B3D99F9D@wirelessbeehive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Interesting to find out if there's any truth to it:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/15/meteorite-falls-in-russia-chel yabinsk-region-damage-and-casualties-unclear/

patrick

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