Observer | |
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Name | Steve |
Experience Level | 1/5 |
Remarks | If anyone else reports this, I would like to be notified, only because I am curious as to what they saw (I don\'t want to know their identity). |
Location | |
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Address | Philadelphia, PA |
Latitude | 40° 4' 11.95'' N (40.069986°) |
Longitude | 75° 12' 16.24'' W (-75.20451°) |
Elevation | - |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2010-12-28 18:45 EDT |
UT Date & Time | 2010-12-28 23:45 UT |
Duration | ? |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From right to left |
Descent Angle | 270° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 315° |
First azimuth | -1° |
First elevation | 90° |
Last azimuth | -1° |
Last elevation | 60° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | 1 |
Color | White |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | I didn\'t hear any sound. |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 1s |
Length | 40° |
Remarks | I was standing in the middle of a park, away from street lights. The fireball was white in color, almost like burning sodium. It looked round. There was a trail flowing behind it, fanning it out. I happened to be looking up at the stars when I noticed the fireball directly overhead. It went for about 2 seconds in a straight line towards the northwest, then seemed to explode, but there was no sound. The most interesting thing to me was that a someone else came up to me about a minute later, and asked me if I had seen the trees in the park light up, like it was daylight for a second. The bystander did not see the fireball itself. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | See previous note. Why would the landscape suddenly light up when the fireball exploded? Does that mean it was very close? |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Unknown |
Remarks | - |