Meteor observations are tricky things. Where people think they see a meteor and where it actually was are generally two vastly different things. "Nearly to ground level" could in fact mean that a bright meteor seen from a distance of a couple of hundred miles made it down to airliner altitudes before either vaporizing or losing incandescence. We've received (so far) no calls about this here at the planetarium, so we have no additional information from which to start making educated guesses as to the location of the meteor. Not long ago we had numerous calls reporting a bright meteor that was visible in the late afternoon. Calls came in from everywhere between southern Idaho to Lake Powell. All of the observers claimed that the meteor fell just to the east of them, not more than a mile away. By triangulating from the reported azimuths of multiple observers we concluded that the meteor came down well east of the Utah-Colorado border. Even when we told the reporter from Malad that the exact same meteor had been seen by another person at Lake Powell, they said, "No way! It must have been a different meteor!" People are funny that way. Seth -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces+sjarvis=slco.org@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces+sjarvis=slco.org@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:54 AM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Meteors Hi all, a woman called and said she and her husband saw two meteors last night around Point of the Moutnain. They were bright and went nearly to ground level. Anyone have any idea what this might be? Anyone else see anything? Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com