Reports Report 5990q (Event 5990-2022)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Albert B |
| Experience Level | 1/5 |
| Remarks | I am not completely sure this was a meteor. If it was not, sorry for wasting your time. Two days later (September 11, 2022 at about 1pm), I wrote an account of what I saw on my phone, specifically so I could report it to a website such as this if I ever found one. It does not include the brightness or sound at all, but it did include the approximate time, date, trajectory, colors, and fragmentation. Most of this report is based on that. That note says the time was between 10pm and 12am, but the only reason I was outside was to receive an image from a NOAA APT weather satellite, "probably NOAA 18". NOAA 18 passed by from about 23:28 to 23:38. I remember that it happened in the first half of the pass. It is possible that I have the wrong satellite, if I recall correctly there were a few satellites passing by in that time frame. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Portland, OR |
| Latitude | 45° 34' 39.67'' N (45.577686°) |
| Longitude | 122° 43' 29.93'' W (-122.72498°) |
| Elevation | 48.89682m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2022-09-09 23:30 PST |
| UT Date & Time | 2022-09-10 06:30 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 244° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 28.94° |
| First azimuth | 33.83° |
| First elevation | 29° |
| Last azimuth | 21.99° |
| Last elevation | 18° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -8 |
| Color | Orange, Red |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | I could see a chunk (maybe a tenth the size of the main object) break off mid way through. It burned up a second or two later. (from my written account of the event that I wrote two days later) |