Showing posts with label MA NY CT RI VT ME Worcester Massachusetts Meteor 29JAN2011. Show all posts
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30 January 2011

Massachusetts Meteor Captured in Cambridge 29JAN2011

Meteor Over Cambridge, MA ~8:29 pm EST 29JAN2011
Photo taken by Brad Kelly 29JAN2011
(c)ALL Rights Reserved Brad Kelly Photography
Massachusetts Meteor Captured in Cambridge, MA- Ghost of Weston 1807?
Photo and Text by Brad Kelly (c) 2011
  I missed the movie I had been planning to see, so instead, I walked around Harvard Square with my camera and tripod taking some photos and I happened to get lucky with the camera in the right place at the right time. One in a million...

Here is a cell phone snapshot of the LCD screen of my "real" Nikon camera showing the photo of the meteor over Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, at approximately 8:29pm.  I haven't transferred the photo from my camera's memory card yet.  


The photo is a single shot captured with a Nikon D300. It is an 8 second tripod exposure using a 20mm prime lens at f8 aperture. 



Meteorologist Jim Gamble of ELPALLSKY has examined the original photo...

by Jim Gamble, El Paso AllSky
The photograph appears to be authentic/original. Of particular interest regarding authenticity is the fact that three distinct cloud levels are obvious. The cirroform upper deck is at 15-20K ft, the altocumulus is at 6500 to 15K ft. mid level, and scattered stratocumulus lower clouds are below 6500 ft. The meteor appears to become obscured by the lower deck during ablated flight and does not reappear so termination is not visible.
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Thank you Brad Kelly for sharing your photo with me and the viewers of Meteor/Meteorite News!

Thank you Mr. Jim Gamble for your kind help.

Breaking News! MA NY CT RI VT ME Worcester, Massachusetts Meteor 29JAN2011

Breaking News!  Update photo here
Worcester, Massachusetts Meteor  8:40pm EST 29JAN2011
Jan 30 2011, 10:50 AM (timestamp Tokyo)
Jescelle Marengo wrote:
My name is Jescelle and my fiancee and I just saw a meteorite fly over Worcester,Massachusetts at 8:40 PM on January 29, 2011. It was a bright white fireball,about as big as the tip of your pinky at arms length, with a red "flare" looking tail that broke as it fly past. The red tail turned to green, and it dissipated. It was coming from the south West, going north east. It was beautiful but scary!
Thank you for the excellent report.!!!

Internet Traffic Indicates MA  Meteor Seen Over Wide Area
MA, NY, CT, RI, VT, ME:

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Email from Readers:

Eye Witness of bright light in the sky
Hi There,
I found your site searching to see if anyone else saw what I saw this evening. I figure it would be cool to pass on what I saw too.
I live in Somverville MA, and around 8:30PM I saw a bright flash in the sky so I looked up. I saw a bright blue or green object with a long bright red trail behind it that lasted in the sky for about a second. Then a part of the object broke off and seemed to fall and disappear. The rest of the object kept flying through the air until it went out of view. It seemed to be continuing on its path unlike the other part that fell off.
Thanks for having a platform on the internet for people to report what they see in the sky! It was a truly amazing spectacle to see!
Cheers!
Anastasia H.
(Anastasia thank you got the great report! What a beautiful name!!! - LunarMeteorite*Hunter-Tokyo)

Possible Meteor?
Saw and heard a large boom in Carver, MA and other reports in Halifax and Braintree, MA. Nothing on the news though. -Mike

Other Related Internet Website Posts:


Reentry Observed Over LaGuardia (LGA)?
« on: Today at 03:26 AM »  NASA Spaceflight.com
During descent into LaGuardia Airport this evening a passenger aboard a commercial flight (SWA 3130) observed a "fireball" streaking across the sky. The aircraft was still above the clouds at the time, but had begun descent. (The flight is reported to have landed at 8:43 PM EST on 29 Jan 11.)
Could this have been e.g. the reentry of the upper stage from the recent HII-B launch?

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=23969.msg679690;boardseen


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