New Mexico Fireball

This was taken from Spaceweather.com on 9/13/2007:

"There was a large fireball over New Mexico this morning at 3:20 am MDT," reports Thomas Ashcraft. "It literally turned night into day," he says. Ashcraft operates an all-sky camera that captured the meteor in flight: movie. Don't forget to turn up the volume: The soundtrack is the echo of a distant radio station reflected from the fireball's ionized trail."

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• Meteor
• Science
• Space
• Weather
• Fireball
• New
• Mexico
• Explosion

[VagianTuerous]

What causes the meteor to be propelled back into space? I saw something like it about a year and ago and have been puzzled by it ever since.

[Valarauko]

I believe it was the effect of the camera lens (wide angle) which made it seem like it went back into space. It likely just disintegrated. Usually all sky cameras like that use a wide angle lens to capture as much of an area of sky as possible.

[BuriedTreasureCA]

It actually does not "go back into space", what you are seeing is, as the object encounters earth's atmosphere, it glows brightly and more energy is released (light) as it gets hotter and hotter from the friction that the atmosphere slowing it down. Eventually it slows enough to no longer heat up and begins to rapidly cool, therefore the light being emitted from heat dissipates, giving the illusion that it is going backwards. Contrary to popular belief, meteorites are not red hot when they hi

[Beastaphile]

nice vid

[bigalisme]

What do you wanna bet a bunch of hicks thought it was a UFO? :P

[HighDesertGlider]

very cool...

[lalomarquez]

Nice capture. I read that another all-sky camera recorded it also, as well as radio amateur who recorded radio echoes from the ionized trail. Thank you for sharing.

[simple11q]

yeah, usually ordinary bright.