Bright meteor captured on Washington Monument camera

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The American Meteor Society received over 20 reports so far about a bright meteor (maybe a fireball) that occurred over West Virginia on Tuesday September 8th 2015 at 9:27 EST (01:27 UT). Observers from as far North Carolina and Ohio reported seeing a bright light in the sky. This event has been captured by an Earthcam located on the Washington Monument.

If you witnessed this event please fill out an official fireball report.

Below are the heat map and the witness map of the event.

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AMS Event #2015-2158 – Heatmap

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AMS Event #2015-2158 – Reports

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Vincent Perlerin

Vincent Perlerin

Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.

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