> Out watching Mars rise and looking for aurora (none seen so far). > Spotted bright orange fireball, est. mag -3 to -4 passing roughly > W-SW > slowly from Virgo down through to Libra fading into Scorpio. Got the > 10x > 50's onto it just after brightest and noticed it fragmenting with at > least > one bright sub fragment. > 3-4 second event. No persistant trail. > > Was very slow and very orange..possible reentry???? I doubt it. From the very short lifespan noted, it was probably a bolide (a meteor -3 or brighter). BTW, how did Mars look? I plan to take a look ASAP. Haven't been able to get up early in the morning in part because of my very busy schedule with school. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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