Observer | |
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Name | Melanie R |
Experience Level | 2/5 |
Remarks | - |
Location | |
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Address | Toronto, Ontario (CA) |
Latitude | 43° 38' 13.13'' N (43.64°) |
Longitude | 79° 25' 35.86'' W (-79.43°) |
Elevation | 92.78m |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2020-12-07 19:37 EST |
UT Date & Time | 2020-12-08 00:37 UT |
Duration | ≈3.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up right to down left |
Descent Angle | 192° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 70.32° |
First azimuth | 71.58° |
First elevation | 48° |
Last azimuth | 71.23° |
Last elevation | 9° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | -24 |
Color | Orange |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 4s |
Length | 30° |
Remarks | Glowing (gold and yellow glow, faint burnt orange center gradient) and illuminating train, trailing out and fragmenting. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Terminal explosion was very faint, almost indistinguishable from the “thickness” of the trail and when it did occur, the meteorite still had one quarter of its trail still visible (only the beginning of the trail had begun dissipating). |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | Sitting on second floor patio of a two storey home. First appearance as a thin, slivered and “white" streak appeared a little higher than midway through the sky, seemingly out of nowhere as I was already looking straight at this section of the sky before the appearance. No flash was accompanied with the initial appearance of this thin streak. It’s appearance in the sky was seen as a very thin trail ( |