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I am an expert meteor observer who was out observing 12 meteors that hour. This was my 19157 lifetime meteor. This one was highly unusual as it was extremely slow. I called out seven times, about once per second, as it descended to the horizon. It traveled vertically down (180*) facing east-northeast (68*). This would indicate that it was possibly a bollide travelling away and would have been far brighter near the zenith about 100-150 miles E-NE from my location. I have extremely precise information of all aspects of the trajectory from the background knowledge of the constellations. Mountain desert sky visibility was magnitude +6.7. I was located precisely at 33.597.000, -111.589707 in the open mountain desert. Observed time was 22:33 and 45 seconds AZ MST Oct 26, 2016, or 05:33 and 45 seconds UT Oct 27, 2016 It began at precisely 40.0* N latitude, 3:00.00 hour E longitude between Algol (Beta Persei and Rho Persei). It descended precisely vertically as measured on a star chart to termination at 18.0* N latitude, 7:00 hour E longitude between and slightly below Alhena (Gamma Gemini) and Mekbuda (Zeta Gemini) and terminated at 3* above the horizon. Please note that the actual observed magnitude was +1 throughout the entire trajectory and not -4 required minimum by this program. |
