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(meteorobs) BRIGHT METEOR MONDAY NIGHT
Dear Meteorobs:
Monday evening (Tuesday morning UT) at 0138 UT I was out working on the
installation of a new tower for my ham radio pursuits. My friend Tim, who
was helping me with the engineering work, exclaimed "look at that meteor".
Tim was facing west and I was looking east (naturally!) but I was able to
spin around and see the last 2 seconds of what he described as a spectacular
meteor burn.
He described seeing the meteor burn start somewhere between Scutum and
Ophiuchus and it terminated north of Hercules...nearly into Draco. The part
I witnessed was at least magnitude -2.
Anyone else witness this thing? Tim thought it might have been some space
junk burning up, but it was very blue-white and I did not see any
"sparklers" burning off it. If it was space debris it was an object that had
been in polar orbit because of it's south-north path.
As I finished up outside (around 0530 ut...it's going to rain Thursday...so
I've got to get concrete poured by Wednesday!) The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn
were stunningly framed by Auriga and Orion...what a beautiful night!
Regards,
Mark S. Williams
Elizabeth, In
GC: 38.08.16 N, 85.56.06 W
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