{"id":610,"date":"2017-05-11T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/wp\/2017\/05\/11\/fireball-of-thursday-16-mar-2017-at-9-39pm-pacific-time\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T01:18:11","slug":"fireball-of-thursday-16-mar-2017-at-9-39pm-pacific-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Fireball of Thursday 16 Mar 2017 at 9:39pm Pacific Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Meteor fireball fell over Central Washington State, and broke up over the Colville Reservation north of Yakima. The bright fireball was seen by many people from Vancouver Island , Vancouver, Seattle, and as far East as Spokane, Washington. \u00a0<\/span>The American Meteor Society received 116 reports of \u201ca fireball\u201d over Washington, B.C., Idaho and Oregon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vancouver time that was \u00a0Thursday\u00a0March 16, 2017<\/span> at 9:39pm. \u00a0People described a green tail turning briefly yellow, followed by a<\/span>\u00a0quick double flash at it broke up. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Kathy M. wrote on the \u00a0AMS site: “<\/span><\/span>It was so amazing and beautiful. I’ve seen small, white falling stars before but never anything like this….large bright green with a huge white tail. Very cool.<\/em>” \u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/www.amsmeteors.org\/members\/imo_view\/event\/2017\/1012<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Colour\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>VIDEO<\/strong>: \u00a0<\/span><\/span>Tammy Kwan, a Vancouver weekly newspaper Georgia Straight reporter, posted her dashcam video to YouTube\u00a0she was driving on Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows. \u00a0See\u00a0<\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xfcg_GiZhqA<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of The Meteor Network All sky cameras across BC and Washington picked it up at 17 Mar 2017 at 04:39 UTC :<\/span><\/p>\n

Bellview Wash (just a flash through clouds)\u00a0at 04:39 UTC<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Victoria BC \u00a0at 04:39<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cranbrook
Cranbrook Allsky<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/span><\/p>\n

Cranbrook BC at 04:39;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"West
Kelowna Allsky<\/figcaption><\/figure>West Kelowna BC at 04:39.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prince George\u00a0BC at 04:53. \u00a0(Their clock may be out).<\/span><\/p>\n

The Anarchist Mtn, and\u00a0<\/span>Richland, Wash sites weren\u2019t online. \u00a0The Courtney BC site didn’t see it.<\/span><\/p>\n

TRIANGULATION<\/strong>: On these Allsky photos, North is at the top, and East is on the left. \u00a0Knowing the location of the photos, and from their directions, we can triangulate where the meteor was. \u00a0If you get your ruler out and draw intersecting lines on a map, it appears South of Kelowna BC, in Central Washington, over the Colville Reservation. \u00a0In this case, it’s unlikely it hit the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

A second smaller meteor was seen to the North on 03\/17\/2017 at 04:53 UT, 14 minutes afterward.<\/p>\n

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A Meteor fireball fell over Central Washington State, and broke up over the Colville Reservation north of Yakima. The bright fireball was seen by many people from Vancouver Island , Vancouver, Seattle, and as far East as Spokane, Washington. \u00a0The American Meteor Society received 116 reports of \u201ca fireball\u201d over Washington, B.C., Idaho and Oregon. … Continue reading “Fireball of Thursday 16 Mar 2017 at 9:39pm Pacific Time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcmeteors.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}