Meteor/Fireball News- Yuba City Sentinel Fireball 30OCT09 1NOV09

Images by YC Sentinel (c) 2009
Photo, *movie, and Light Curve sent to Dirk-San of Nihon via Yahoo
and SETI. (*Movie is currently not able to upload- sorry)

Bolide of N. California

Oct. 30th. 2009 0316 Hrs. PDT.

Final Report:
Locaton North Central California. (Yuba City.)
Detonation Brightness = >Full Moon.
Duration = 2 Seconds.
Starting Elevation = 60 degrees
Starting Azimuth = 79 deg. True North.
Ending Elevation = 43 degrees.
Ending Azimuth = 72 deg. True North.

-2 small post explosion ablating products found running movie at 1/4 speed.
A short but very nice image and Q-Time movie. Data will be sent to AMS.
YCSentinel

Initial Reports:

Event was 2 seconds long.

Starting Elevation and Azimuth is 60 degrees Elev., 79 degrees Azimuth True North.

Ending Elevation and Azimuth is 43 degrees Elev., 72 degrees Azimuth True North.

1/4 speed movie indicates a post explosion of 2 small ablating products.

Peak brightness exceeds full moon.

YCSentinel

0316:41 Oct. 30, 2009 PST

Exceptionally clean explosion with (no initial evidence) of post explosion
wake light or ablation products. High elevation event. I have not yet
measured Azimuth & Elevation but will do so later today and post it here.

Without further examination at this time, the apparent peak light period too
brief to even saturate a single frame but could easily be as bright or
brighter than the Sun. Over 75,000 pixels peak in Sentinels light graph.
Graph looks like a needle point. Super clean!

YCSentinel
Yuba City, California