From Bill Cooke Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Environments Team in Huntsville: Looks like Tuesday night’s meteor streaking across the southern sky was a little bigger than originally thought… “Now that wind data is available, the infrasound energy estimate has been revised. It looks like the original number of 4.6 tons of TNT was off […]
Here is the results of the research done by Bill Cooke of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Environments Team in Huntsville… bottom line was that this was a 21 inch rock with a trajectory from NE to SW with a fall zone potentially in Central or South-Central Mississippi. “Can confirm that this was indeed a […]
For those that missed it… there was a bright flash in the sky visible across the southern U.S. last night all the way from Oklahoma to North Carolina around 8:50 p.m. CST. So far, no really plausible explanation. But, I just received this from Bill Cooke of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Environments Team in […]
Received this note a few minutes ago from Bill Cooke of Marshall Space Flight Center’s Space Environments Team in Huntsville… “Unfortunately, the Huntsville and North Georgia cameras were clouded out around 8:45. STRATCOM site reports no re-entries, and no reports from any experienced meteor or satellite observer (yet). A fireball is possible from the descriptions, […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
