Bright Fireball Over Georgia
Posted on Mar 09, 2012 02:33:41 PM | William Cooke | 2 Comments    |

The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office can confirm a bright fireball observed by several eyewitnesses in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee on Mar. 7, 2012 at 10:19:11 p.m. EST. The fireball was observed by three NASA cameras located at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Tullahoma Tenn., and Cartersville, Ga. The meteor was first recorded at an altitude of 52.7 miles (84.8 km) southeast of Tunnel Hill, Ga., moving slightly south of west at approximately 15 km/s (33,500 mph). It was last seen 14.4 miles (23.2 km) above State Road 95 south east of Rock Springs, Ga. A map of the trajectory is available here: http://www.billcooke.org/events/NGA_2012Mar08/GeorgiaTracks.jpg. The yellow line is the initial automatic meteor trajectory solution. The orange line is the manual (refined) meteor trajectory.

Below are video still images and a short video captured from the cameras at the Marshall Center in Huntsville, Ala. and Cartersville, Ga. 





Credits: NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office

Tags : Bill Cooke, Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA Meteoroid Environment Office, all-sky camera, fireball  

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2 On Apr 30, 2012 10:08:18 AM  Janet  added a comment on your blog post. 

Hi puravida -
We held a live web chat here at Marshall on April 21st to watch the Lyrids. Check out the chat transcript here http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/lyrids2012_chat.html
Thanks!

1 On Apr 29, 2012 11:12:11 AM  puravida  added a comment on your blog post. 

I'm looking for updates and Lyrids observation.Thank you:)

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