Reports Report 2538t (Event 2538-2016)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Kaine M |
| Experience Level | 3/5 |
| Remarks | This was something my 11 year old son, Kaine and myself Sunni (his mother). I am submitting this in his name because he saw it first and told me to look and he also sits on the balcony on a regular basis to look at the stars. |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Grass Valley, CA |
| Latitude | 39° 8' 5.54'' N (39.134872°) |
| Longitude | 121° 2' 17.51'' W (-121.038198°) |
| Elevation | 681.071m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2016-07-23 22:44 PDT |
| UT Date & Time | 2016-07-24 05:44 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 179° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 99.06° |
| First azimuth | 103.66° |
| First elevation | 54° |
| Last azimuth | 99.5° |
| Last elevation | 27° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -17 |
| Color | Blue, Light Yellow, White |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | A faint, low and delayed boom. Like a very, very distant deep thunder. And this was after we saw it burn out. |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 3s |
| Length | 25° |
| Remarks | Kind of like cotton balls stacked on top of each other. But, half as dense, if not less. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | The flash was extremely bright white (maybe even some blueish). At first I thought it was a really, really slow shooting star falling straight down and then it flashed super bright but, kept the same slow fall and then began to slowly break apart over the next couple of seconds or so and then it just seemed to burn out. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | See above answer. Has the whole description. Yes, there was fragmentation until it seemed to just burn out. |