Turns out military aircraft were dropping chaff east of Yuma at the
time. Chaff, of course, being metallic debris dropped from aircraft to
throw off radars... Bad timing, gents. Not the end of the world, but
it doesn't exactly help.
Marc Fries
On 9/15/11 10:18 AM, Jim Wooddell wrote:
Here is a link to a video that captured the fireball.
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Mysterious-lights-spotted-in-Southwest-sky-129874998.html
Nexrad data is only up to the 14th at this time (that I can download)
and this at ~150245Z - a few minutes.
Jim Wooddell
----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Fisler" <phxe...@yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:54 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Green Fireball in Tempe, AZ.
Hi list.
I just went for a quick lap around my apartments at McClintock and
University here in Tempe. I started at approx 7:45pm GMT and while I
was running south I saw a vibrant green fireball streak, break up and
then it went dark. Unfortunately I wasn't close enough to hear a sonic
boom but I did hear a very soft pop like a bottle rocket far away. It
appeared to be 25 degrees West of South and was about 20-30 degrees
from the horizon. It's was moving fairly slow so I assume it was far
south. Can someone check Doppler? It must have had a better sighting
further South like in Casa Grande or Tucson.
[Erik]
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