Fireball 1  :   July 29, 2008    1014 UT  (  4:14 am MDT )

Observer's comments:  Fireball rates are picking up. Twelve visual captures this night.
The first fireball on this page was the largest in magnitude and happened over southern New Mexico.
The rest of the fireballs are listed chronologically.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_1014ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  768 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Head echo only of radio reflection:
FB20080729_he1014ut_Ashcraft.mp4   18 seconds  2.1 MB

Movie 3 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Full duration of stereo radio reflection. NOTE : LARGE FILE!
  FB20080729_1014ut_Ashcraft.mp4 1 minute 10 seconds  8.5 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor radio reflection above occurs during the 1014-1015 UT minutes. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 2  :   July 29, 2008    0554 UT  (  11:54 pm MDT )

Observer's comments:  Nice stereo specimen in headphones.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0554ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
FB20080729_0554ut_Ashcraft.mp4   25 seconds  2.9 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0554 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 3  :   July 29, 2008    0715 UT  (  1:15 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0715ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
 FB20080729_0715ut_Ashcraft.mp4  22 seconds  2.6 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0715 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 4  :   July 29, 2008    0804 UT  (  2:04 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0804ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0804 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 5  :   July 29, 2008    0817 UT  (  2:17 am MDT )

Oberver's comments:  Strong and very long specimen.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0817ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Head echo of radio reflection only:
FB20080729_he0817ut_Ashcraft.mp4   15 seconds  1.7 MB

Movie 3 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
Full duration of reflection...NOTE : LARGE FILE!
FB20080729_0817ut_Ashcraft.mp4   1 minute 44 seconds  11.6 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0817 UT minute and continuing. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 6  :   July 29, 2008    0845 UT  (  2:45 am MDT )

Oberver's comments:  Strong specimen in headphones.

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0845ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
 FB20080729_0845ut_Ashcraft.mp4  41 seconds  4.8 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0845 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 7  :   July 29, 2008    0923 UT  (  3:23 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0923ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
 FB20080729_0923ut_Ashcraft.mp4  34 seconds  4 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0923 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Fireball 8  :   July 29, 2008    0932 UT  (  3:32 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0932ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
FB20080729_0932ut_Ashcraft.mp4   22 seconds  2.8 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0932 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 9  :   July 29, 2008    0933 UT  (  3:33 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_0933ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0933 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 10  :   July 29, 2008    1033 UT  (  4:33 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_1033ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's forward scatter system, video and sound:
FB20080729_1033ut_Ashcraft.mp4   11 seconds  1.4 MB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1033 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.

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Meteor 11  :   July 29, 2008    1044 UT  (  4:44 am MDT )

Movie 1 :  Sentinel camera capture, without sound:
v20080729_1044ut_Ashcraft.mov  6 seconds  786 KB

Radio spectrogram of the time of the above meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 1044 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.


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