Early Data 5-9-2017
William Smith
16 Posts
From Rick Nowell
Caught the fireball flash on my dash cam at 11:11pm MDT. Will go into the college and check the meteor cam. Here's a couple of frames taken from Cranbrook by King Street, looking West, before and after. Didn't hear any thunder. Looks like it fell around Creston or Nelson. Sonic boom reported heard in Nelson and Creston. It rattled the windows in Nelson.
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(Note my dashcam clock is still on standard time, says 22:10; it's actually 23:11 MDT). So UT that would be Sep 5 at 05:11.
"We live in Creston. Saw a huge green flash in the sky. A orange fireball then a sonic Boom that shook our house"
- david john ziola (@zman6987) September 5, 2017
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_reports?event=PENDING
American Meteor site has reports from Bowen Island BC, Spokane Washington, Calgary Alberta, Claresholm, Alberta, Vanscoy Saskatchewan, Post Falls Idaho, Creston BC, Nelson BC, Troy Montana etc.
See video at
http://www.news1130.com/2017/09/04/meteorite-like-object-lights-night-sky/?
Rick Nowell
William Smith
16 Posts
From Rick Nowell 05/09/2017 05:57
American Meteor Site estimates it terminated over Meadow Lake, BC. (Meadow Lake is 30km North of Kaslo BC along Kootenay Lake.)
More than 90 fireball reports from 6 states (CA and USA) The AMS has received over 90 reports so far about of a fireball event seen above the state of British Columbia (Canada) on September 4th, 2017 around 10:14pm PDT (September 5th, 2017 ~ 05:14 Universal Time). The fireball was seen primarily from British Columbia but was also seen from Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as from Washington, Idaho and Montana. According to our latest estimated trajectory, the fireball traveled in a southeast to northwest direction entering the atmosphere near the small city of Boswell and terminating near Meadow Creek, British Columbia.
Excerpt from https://www.amsmeteors.org/2017/09/british-columbia-fireball-september-4th-2017/
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Caught the fireball flash on my dash cam at 11:11pm MDT. Will go into the college and check the meteor cam. Here's a couple of frames taken from Cranbrook by King Street, looking West, before and after. Didn't hear any thunder. Looks like it fell around Creston or Nelson. Sonic boom reported heard in Nelson and Creston. It rattled the windows in Nelson.
[cid:4d630d58-59c3-4cfe-89b4-ed793b5480f0][cid:33f7cd78-19db-4f22-b380-de38c026dd53]
(Note my dashcam clock is still on standard time, says 22:10; it's actually 23:11 MDT). So UT that would be Sep 5 at 05:11.
"We live in Creston. Saw a huge green flash in the sky. A orange fireball then a sonic Boom that shook our house"
- david john ziola (@zman6987) September 5, 2017
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/browse_reports?event=PENDING
American Meteor site has reports from Bowen Island BC, Spokane Washington, Calgary Alberta, Claresholm, Alberta, Vanscoy Saskatchewan, Post Falls Idaho, Creston BC, Nelson BC, Troy Montana etc.
See video at
http://www.news1130.com/2017/09/04/meteorite-like-object-lights-night-sky/?
Rick Nowell
William Smith
16 Posts
Wed 06/09/2017 03:17
From Rick Nowell
Hi Bill;
I checked the SkySentinel Network for other BC nodes that have updated: Victoria just saw a flash over the horizon. Courtenay didn't see anything. Jeff at West Kelowna was my best hope but he hasn't uploaded yet. I don't have Jeff's new email so I can't ask him. Anarchist and Hanford are offline. Skysentinel put my stuff up online at http://goskysentinel.com/node/node28?
West Kelowna, BC (49.849000, -119.559000) Sep 4 COTR, Cranbrook, BC (49.5175, -115.7436) Sep 5 Shane Observatory, BC (53.893912, -122.791944) Aug 7 Victoria, BC (48.505386, -123.49833) Sep 5 Courtenay, BC (49.67639, -125.0058) Sep 5 Bellevue, WA (47.61, -122.13) Aug 23 Prince George Astro Obs, BC (53.757765, -122.849189) Aug 29 Anarchist Mtn Observatory, BC (49.015476, -119.399686) offline LIGO Hanford Observatory, WA (46.4551467, -119.4076571) offline
Allan Hildebrand thinks it may have hit the ground.
Man, I didn't get any sleep last night, and Tuesday was a big day at the college, first day of classes. Jeez.
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From: Alan Hildebrand <ahildebr@ucalgary.ca>
Sent: September 5, 2017 1:01 PM
To: Nowell, Rick
Subject: RE: Fireball over Kaslo-Nelson Monday Sep 4 at 10:11pm pacific time
Dear Rick,
Thank you - I plan to investigate this one and great catch! Looks like a meteorite dropper:)*
Rick
William Smith
16 Posts
From Rick
Wed 06/09/2017 05:12
I checked the SkySentinel Network for other BC nodes that have updated: Victoria just saw a flash over the horizon. Courtenay didn't see anything. Jeff at West Kelowna was my best hope but he hasn't uploaded yet. I don't have Jeff's new email so I can't ask him. Anarchist and Hanford are offline. Skysentinel put my stuff up online at http://goskysentinel.com/node/node28?
West Kelowna, BC (49.849000, -119.559000) Sep 4 COTR, Cranbrook, BC (49.5175, -115.7436) Sep 5 Shane Observatory, BC (53.893912, -122.791944) Aug 7 Victoria, BC (48.505386, -123.49833) Sep 5 Courtenay, BC (49.67639, -125.0058) Sep 5 Bellevue, WA (47.61, -122.13) Aug 23 Prince George Astro Obs, BC (53.757765, -122.849189) Aug 29 Anarchist Mtn Observatory, BC (49.015476, -119.399686) offline LIGO Hanford Observatory, WA (46.4551467, -119.4076571) offline
Does Lethbridge still have an Allsky meteor camera? I don't see him listed in the North America Allsky Camera database any more.? He used to record on VHS tape.
Doe the Rothney A. Observatory (U of Calgary) upload stuff to the Allsky site? I know they have a colour AllSky cam, with one minute exposures..
Rick