Oct 22, 2012

Fragmentation and Sonics! Northern California Fireball Meteor - Unrelated to the Orionids

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MBIQ indicates that a meteor was seen minutes ago over California on 17OCT2012 at 07'42 pm. The meteor appears to be slow-moving sporatic fireball meteor and NOT related to the Orionids meteor shower. The meteor fragmented with sonics and is a very good candidate for a meteorite producing event.

 


CHP and local San Mateo County police radio traffic about a meteor in the San Francisco Bay Area meteor on October 17, 2012:
 


Published on Oct 17, 2012 by hey8you: caught meteor on my dash cam 10-17-12
 


Raw footage of meteor breaking up over San Jose captured by our security camera from the Lick Observatory. (Camera is a little out of focus and tilted)

 



 
Camera capture of Belmont, California Fireball
 



 

 
Read more at - http://www.sott.net/article/252533-Fragmentation-and-Sonics-Northern-California-Fireball-Meteor-19-42-PDT-17OCT2012-Unrelated-to-the-Orionids