Reports Report 1331f (Event 1331-2016)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Jeff S |
| Experience Level | 2/5 |
| Remarks | I have seen maybe a dozen meteors or meteor showers in my life, usually one or more much smaller bright white streaks traveling more or less laterally or overhead. This was about 20x larger and more the size of a flare from a flaregun, and appeared to plummet almost straight vertically, down toward the ground, very near. My first reaction, despite the pre-dawn hour, was that it was a firework, but it was traveling too fast, much faster than the downward drift of fireworks or flares. I think it stopped flaring before hitting the ground, or it may have disappeared beyond trees. My best guess would be it landed within 750-2500 feet to the SSW of me. I wondered if it was space debris. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Skokie, IL |
| Latitude | 42° 2' 44.95'' N (42.045819°) |
| Longitude | 87° 45' 4.74'' W (-87.751317°) |
| Elevation | 192.576m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2016-04-08 04:15 CDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2016-04-08 09:15 UT |
| Duration | ≈1.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up right to down left |
| Descent Angle | 187° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 248.68° |
| First azimuth | 250.14° |
| First elevation | 33° |
| Last azimuth | 248.22° |
| Last elevation | 3° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -12 |
| Color | Green, Light Green, Brown, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Duration | - |
| Length | - |
| Remarks | - |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | No |
| Remarks | - |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The flaring was not constant, nor like the entry of an aerodynamic object, but seemed wobbly, and maybe widening, like a large unwieldy object such as a piece of furniture with streamers tied to it, breaking up |