Fireball at dusk in Upstate NY - 3/11

I was wondering if anyone else happened to be looking west at around 8 pm,
and saw this brilliant meteor skipping through the atmosphere and breaking
up. It started just below Venus and ended near the horizen in the W - SW. A
bright orange glowing head leaving a blue - green tail that lingered for a
few seconds after the meteor had vanished. It was definately one of my top
5 best meteors ! We were driving westbound on the NY State Thruway near
Utica.

Bill Ruscher Jr.

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:25:16 -0400, "William Ruscher"
wrote:

I was wondering if anyone else happened to be looking west at around 8 pm,
and saw this brilliant meteor skipping through the atmosphere and breaking
up. It started just below Venus and ended near the horizen in the W - SW. A
bright orange glowing head leaving a blue - green tail that lingered for a
few seconds after the meteor had vanished. It was definately one of my top
5 best meteors ! We were driving westbound on the NY State Thruway near
Utica.

I've received a number of reports. Yours is the farthest east; the
farthest west is Skokie, IL. That's 640 miles apart. It looks like the
fireball was traveling mainly north to south (maybe a little west to
east) over Michigan's Lower Peninsula, and terminated close to Detroit.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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I was wondering if anyone else happened to be looking west at around 8 pm,
and saw this brilliant meteor skipping through the atmosphere and breaking
up. It started just below Venus and ended near the horizen in the W - SW. A
bright orange glowing head leaving a blue - green tail that lingered for a
few seconds after the meteor had vanished. It was definately one of my top
5 best meteors ! We were driving westbound on the NY State Thruway near
Utica.

Bill Ruscher Jr.




I was lugging some telescope equipment from the car to the site I was
setting up at, going through some deep snow with my head down. I just
happened to look up and see the very end of a bright, spectacular
breakup right at that same time and directions you state.

I have never seen anything like that, but I haven't been doing this
whole 'looking at the sky' thing for long. I found it absolutely
stunning.

I was about 60km NW of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


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"William Ruscher" wrote in message
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I was wondering if anyone else happened to be looking west at around 8 pm,
and saw this brilliant meteor skipping through the atmosphere and breaking
up. It started just below Venus and ended near the horizen in the W - SW.
A bright orange glowing head leaving a blue - green tail that lingered for
a few seconds after the meteor had vanished. It was definately one of my
top 5 best meteors ! We were driving westbound on the NY State Thruway
near Utica.

Bill Ruscher Jr.
Right about 8PM I was driving west-northwest down the street where I live 15
miles south of Pittsburgh, PA when I saw a bright bluish-green fireball
straight ahead of me just above the horizon. I did not see any long trail so
I don't know from what direction it was coming from. It was there for about
two seconds. I mentioned this to my wife but by the time she looked it was
gone. I agree, it was one of the brightest meteors I've seen.

Tim Oltrogge