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Jackson, Mississippi Meteor 11JAN2011

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A NASA scientist says the fireball that lit up the Oklahoma sky Tuesday night was in fact a meteor. He also says it was bigger than previously thought. Bill Cooke is an astronomer with the Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama who writes a blog on the center's home page. In an entry Friday afternoon, Cooke says he used information gathered by the Elginfield Infrasound Array (ELFO) in Canada to track the meteor's path and to estimate its key characteristics. The array records very low frequency sound waves in order to track meteors. Cooke says based on the information gathered by ELFO,.. Cooke believes the meteor was traveling more than 33,000 miles per hour. So far he hasn't found video of the actual meteor, but has told other web sites he believes the meteor exploded with a force of 40 to 80 tons of TNT. He says the evidence suggests a large "fall zone" for debris in the area of Jackson, Mississippi.


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Important! NASA Huntsville Confirms Fireball Size ... Jackson, Miss 11JAN2011

Bright Fireball Flames in Southern Skies
Posted on Jan 13, 2011 10:55:43 AM by William Cooke, NASA 
Editor's Note: A rare snowstorm isn’t the only interesting thing that happened across the South this past week. On the night of Tuesday, Jan. 11, an extremely bright fireball meteor streaked over Jackson, Miss., and was visible across several southern states. NASA astronomer Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center confirms the meteor below.

Okay folks, can confirm that this was indeed a fireball or bolide. Unfortunately no video of the actual meteor has surfaced, so I requested an analysis of signals from North American infrasound stations. We had one very clear detection, from the ELFO station in Canada, and a marginal signal at another station east of the visual sightings. Unfortunately the marginal signal is too weak to permit extraction of much information or to triangulate.

The ELFO signal arrived at 10:05:50 PM Central time, some 1 hour and 20 minutes after the event, and came in at an azimuth of 210 degrees. If you look at the attached plot, the black curved line shows the path of the ELFO signal, which intersects nicely with the bulk of the visual observations -- indicated by the red dot  -- around Jackson, Mississippi (ELFO az gives 32 deg N, 89 deg W -- Jackson is at 32 deg N, 90 deg W).

ELFO radio signal indicates 11JAN2011 meteor over Jackson, Mississippi
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The infrasound signal at ELFO lasted some 2.5 minutes, and the amplitude permits an estimate of the meteor's energy at 4.6 tons of TNT. If we assume a speed of 15 kilometers per second, we can derive a mass of 171 kg or 376 pounds. Making a further assumption that the meteor was porous rock gives a size, or diameter, of 0.54 meters or 21 inches.

Jackson, Mississippi MAJOR Bolide Meteor Fireball 11JAN2011 Update 13JAN2011

mississippi surveillance video meteor flash tues 11th jan 2011

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Possible meteor down South (video) 45 sec - 3 hours ago CNN takes a look at images of what could have been a meteor over the Southern states. cnn.com Meteor Flashes Across Alabama Sky (video) A meteor visible from Oklahoma to the Florida panhandle flashed across the sky Tuesday night. (picture in video of green fireball is NOT from this event!) wkrg.com ----------------------------------------------------- From Readers of The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: Hello, I'm Hoyt Harris, news anchor at KATC (ABC) in Lafayette, LA. I just happened to be returning to the station last night when, exiting my car, I saw falling to Earth at a 45-degree angle, a green, glowing ball of light, with a tail behind it. My first thought was: "Kids, shooting leftover New Year's Eve foreworks."  But as I entered the newsroom, our producer said we were receiving calls from viewers about "lights in the sky." I immediately posted a query on Facebook and within seconds, friends/viewers began commenting that they, too, had seen the same thing. Hoyt Harris KATC anchor Lafayette, LA ----------------------------- Note: I will post more later. Please check back.  Thank You.  LunarMeteorite*Hunter

Two Bolides! Mississippi Bolide Meteor Fireball 11JAN2011 UPDATE

Jackson, Mississippi area was visited by AT LEAST two large green bolides on last night 1-1-11!

..."I was watching TV around 9 pm and heard rumbling outside, i walked out my back door just about the time a bright greenish light appeared in the northern sky heading west. It seemed to be a large meteor or something resembling one moving very fast across the sky.

It was a bit unnerving to see something that large and bright moving across the sky, then a few minutes later a second light appeared a little smaller than the first moving in same direction also with a low rumble following. "... Michael S. (contact info on record)
Thank you Michael S. and all for your kind reports!


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Jackson, Mississippi MAJOR Bolide Meteor Fireball 11JAN2011 Breaking News

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Major Bolide Meteor Fireball Event Detected!

12JAN2011 around 8:45CST  UTC 02:24

More Details to Follow. 

Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida all have reports


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KATV and KTHV out of Little Rock AR are both talking about it

Ball of Fire Turns Out to be Meteor  WKRG-TV by WKRG Staff The mysterious flash of light that many of our viewers reported seeing earlier Tuesday night was caused by a meteor strike in Oklahoma. ...

What was Falling From the Sky Over Arkansas Tuesday Night? KARK The National Weather Service tells KARK they believe it may have been a meteor shower, although no such event was forecasted, according to earthsky.org. ... Ball of fire turns out to be meteor near Oklahoma Today's THV The Sebastian County Sheriff's Office says it was a meteor and likely hit near Poteau Mountain, Oklahoma. We contacted amateur astronomer Steven Meeks who ... Mysterious 'flash of light' causes uproar Jackson Clarion Ledger Drane said he was told by a weather expert the light might have been a stray meteor from a recent meteor shower. National Weather Service meteorologist Eric ... Huge Fireball Spotted Over Southeast US KATC Lafayette News At roughly 8:50pm local time an apparent meteor was spotted by observers in Acadiana including KATC's Hoyt Harris. Hoyt and Acadiana were not alone in the ... Meteor seen streaking across southern sky Several viewers reported seeing a bright flash of light streaking across the sky Tuesday night.

Mysterious 'flash of light' causes uproar
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20110111/NEWS/110111049/Mysterious-flash-of-light-causes-uproar


"The majority of those who heard the boom were near the town of Hopewell just southeast of Crystal Springs."

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A large event has occurred in the Jackson, Mississippi area in the US.

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hey, I was sure where to post this. I have been searching for if anyone just saw what i saw!!! I am in Bossier City, Louisiana. I was walking my dogs at 9p.m. CST, and thought I was seeing a shooting star, until it got huge, continued to fall, and turned bright green! It fell behind our apartment complex, and I am guessing it hit the ground, because in that direction the sky lit up bright green. It was crazy, I've never seen anything like it, and I wanted to share.

Keah Simon wrote,

My kids and i were driving on the interstate 3-10 approaching Kenner, Louisiana about 8:45 p.m. this evening when i saw huge sea green colored ball with flames tailing. I instantly yelled "Look a shooting star!" Then realized it was a meteor. It came powerfully spiraling downwards towards the marsh below , to the left of us. It was astonishing ! Looking back in my mirror still surprised of what we witnessed, i saw the sky light upon, what must've been  ,the impact into the earth. We couldnt have been more then 2 miles away from it. It was absolutely beautiful.

virgogirl61981 wrote:

I was sitting outside smoking, and saw a blue streak n I look up within a split second I see a blue ball of fire and its gone! Scared me! I ran inside! Never seen anything like it! It was about 8:50 pm in waynesboro,MS on 1-11-11.

Jan 12 2011, 1:40 PM

Sherry Spruill Young: could the meteor that reportedly hit near the ar ok border tonight have caused a sonic boom? and does anyone know about what time it hit? something rattled windows and shook homes here in southeast ar, and nobody can find a cause.

Jan 12 2011, 2:01 PM

Sherry Spruill Young: A local tv station is reporting people as far away as Florida saw the meteor that reportedly hit near Poteau Mountain,OK

Jan 12 2011, 2:02 PM

Sherry Spruill Young: Other people are reporting a meteor hitting around the same time in Covington County Mississippi 


KATV and KTHV out of Little Rock AR are both talking about it

Anonymous wrote:
Saw a huge quick flash of light overhead that lit up St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi about 8:45 pm tonight, 1-11-11. Until now, I thought it was just a huge flash of light from the rooftop of the building or some type of flash from the nearby interstate. It was a quick flash of bright white light on the ground and on the building. Guess it was a meteor.