Reports Report 1853c (Event 1853-2021)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ben G |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | I have worked at NASA for 20 years ehs an ingineer and have been building spacecraft and operating spacecraft on orbit for a very long time, this was just a space rock but it was apparently pretty big. I did not see anything on the smalle bodies database or the minor planet centre that indicated something like that at all. I just wanted you guys to know that 1 may have slipped by and if it did not slip by and you knew about it, I would like to know what that thing was and how long we have been tracking it |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Silver Spring, MD |
| Latitude | 39° 1' 6.63'' N (39.018509°) |
| Longitude | 77° 1' 21.61'' W (-77.022669°) |
| Elevation | 102.977295m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2021-03-22 23:39 EDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2021-03-23 03:39 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From down right to up left |
| Descent Angle | 271° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 202.74° |
| First azimuth | 233.15° |
| First elevation | 32° |
| Last azimuth | 194.17° |
| Last elevation | 37° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -6 |
| Color | Orange, Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 1s |
| Length | 3° |
| Remarks | The smoke trail was only presently observable by the assumption the glowing superheated rock was masked behind something at the aft end. There was apparent break-up at the end as the object broke into 2 separate objects with the fwd part accelerating away from the part left behind. It was definitely a space rock. But it was high up, very high. I have never seen an asteroid move so slow, break up like that or react that way (20 years at nasa, Goddard space flight center.) There was no green or purple to the fire color, usually a satellite burns green and purplish, depending on Detroit. This was a space rock. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | It broke into 2 separate pieces with what looked like smalling pieces breaking loose and disintegrating in fractions of a second |