Observer | |
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Name | Glen M |
Experience Level | 4/5 |
Remarks | 20-year career USAF flyer of 9 different airframes; have observed many meteors. This was best bollide I ever saw! Have reported a few meteors to your site in past - like the recent changes and upgrades made on your site! |
Location | |
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Address | Lake Park, GA |
Latitude | 30° 40' 57.24'' N (30.682566°) |
Longitude | 83° 12' 41.54'' W (-83.21154°) |
Elevation | 49.008m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2017-06-09 23:29 EDT |
UT Date & Time | 2017-06-10 03:29 UT |
Duration | ≈3.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up right to down left |
Descent Angle | 195° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 160° |
First azimuth | 160° |
First elevation | 50° |
Last azimuth | 155° |
Last elevation | 10° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -11 |
Color | Green |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Muffled, distant boom 2 mins after final flare, burst, and particle burnout. |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 5s |
Length | 15° |
Remarks | Train of green and yellow sparks/embers shortly after appearance to ESE of full moon (moon was 10 degrees to W of beginning of appearance) |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | At terminus, main bright green body burst into fragments which continued course a couple seconds before burnout. Muffled boom came from that direction abt 2 mins later. Very similar to flash and fragmentation of the Ural Mtns, Russia hillside captured by multiple trashcans several years ago. |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Burst was just above horizon and was nearly as bright as full moon, cast a shadow as if a camera flashed on my dock. Fragments (too numerous to attempt to count) were of green and yellow, continuing course maybe 2 seconds after explosion, then burning out. |