This report is about a "fireball" sighting that occurred 6 days ago:
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Behalf Of Andy and Barry >Sent: Tuesday, 15 October, 2002 6:02 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: (IAAC) IAAC now accessible > via '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > and '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'! > > >Hi Lew > >I am glad I just received your update on the IAAC. >I should have written to you last week about this to >see if you heard or saw anything like what I saw last >Thursday evening here in Rhode Island. I have >written to all the Frosty Drew crew without out much >reply and I also tried to start a message thread on >SSA, but it seems they are involved >in a lot of Off Topic stuff right now and my message >went by pretty much unnoticed. > >Last Thursday evening I was outside talking with a >couple of friends of mine at about 8:10 PM when >there was a bright flash similar to lightning. >It was so bright that the ground around us lit up. >This in its self was amazing because we were standing >in a brightly lit parking lot. > >I was lucky enough to be facing in the right >direction when the flash caught our attention and I >was able to look up to the sky to see what looked to >be a large blue green meteor breaking in two, >streaking across the sky. The approximate size of >the meteor would have been a little smaller than the >size of your thumb nail held at arms length. What was >truly amazing was that up here in Southern New >England we were completely covered by a 100% cloud >cover. I am not sure the direction this object was >traveling because I was in a section of town I seldom >go to and was not sure of my orientation to the sky. >My guess would be it was traveling from the North to >the East. > >I was wondering if you heard anything about this >meteor or piece of space junk. > >Thank you, > >Barry Martasian ------------- Reply to Original Message ------------- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:17:56 -0400 From: "Lew Gramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball(?), Rhode Island USA, 10 Oct 2002 20:10 Local No, Barry, yours is the first report I've heard of a very bright fireball over Rhode Island! Would you be able to provide more details? If so, PLEASE consider filling out the Web form at: http://www.namnmeteors.org/fireball/report.html I also encourage anyone else who may have sighted an event like this to submit a report as soon as you can afterward, before any details fade from your memory! (BTW, Barry, remember that 'visualdeepsky.org' and 'netastrocatalog' are mailing lists about the Deep Sky! Anything meteor-related is more appropriate to the OTHER list I run, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. :>) Take care, and thanks for sending me the note! Lew Lew Gramer, IMO, NAMN, Webb Society, NDSOS, ATMoB, NSAAC [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster: http://www.meteorobs.org Webmaster: http://www.visualdeepsky.org Assistant: http://www.namnmeteors.org ------------- End of Reply ------------- __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
