Fireball over New Mexico the 13th. Any of you South western DUers awake for that one?

[havocmom]

Looks like it was interesting. Any insomniacs down there get a look at this when it went by?

http://www.spaceweather.com/

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL: On Sept 13th at approximately 3 o'clock in the morning MDT, an extremely bright fireball streaked over New Mexico, "It was terrifying," says eyewitness Susan K. Burgess. "I was stargazing outside my house near Santa Fe when the landscape started becoming very bright, as if a brilliant full moon was quickly rising from the southwest. The fireball itself over the house and disintegrated with a great deal of scatter in the northwest sky."

At the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, a Sentinel all-sky video camera captured the fireball in flight:

click to view the complete movie

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"The fireball was a pure emerald green, uncomfortably bright to look at," adds Harald Edens located in the Magdalena Mountains west of Socorro, NM. "The object was disintegrating when I saw it, with pieces parallel-tracking and trailing the fireball. Those smaller pieces had all different colors--most notably red. I think it has been a piece of space junk."

Amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft not only photographed the fireball, but also recorded echos of a distant radio station bouncing off the meteor's ionized trail: movie. "This fireball turned night into day!" he says.

[SoxFan]

1. Roswell, Aztec, and now this...

Seriously, Gov. Richardson, spend a little less time in Manchester and a little more time trying to get your aerial traffic situation straightened out, allright?

[havocmom]

2. LOL Gonna be hell when Branson gets that space-port open!