From the video KUTV just showed me I'd say it's a classic standard-issue fireball. When you compare its behavior and duration to other fireball videos captured by home security systems it's pretty much identical. The reporter couldn't tell me the direction the camera was pointing during the security cam video, but she said she thought it was pointing east. Has anyone turned up a more accurate azimuth for this?
-----Original Message----- From: Utah-Astronomy [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 8:46 AM To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Terrific fireball this morning Could have been, it was moving pretty slowly. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote:
Satelite reentry?
On Nov 9, 2017 6:11 AM, "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
I saw a big, bright, slow-moving fireball at about 5:35 AM this morning, low in the north-northwest, didn't flame-out until (apparently) very close to the ground. Moving west-to-east from my point of view, looks like any possible strewnfield would be close to I-15 anwhere between Bountiful and the Idaho border.
Really bright, and at least a quarter of a degree wide at maximum, vivid green. Lots of smaller chunks falling away as it broke-up.
I haven't seen a big one in a while so this one was welcome.
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