Note : The meteor is the short streak in the highlighted box at top of screen. That is the Moon
at mid-screen right.


Fireball 1    :   June 9, 2008    0347 UT

Observer's Comments: Clear night. Two fireball specimens this night.

Movies :  
Movie 1 :  Sentinel all-sky camera system capture, without sound:
    v20080609_0347ut_Ashcraft.mov   798 KB  6 seconds


Movie 2 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
Minimal scatter reflection.
  FB200809_0347ut_Ashcraft.mp4     1.5 MB  9 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 0347 UT minute.  All other dots are space dust particles.



Fireball 2     :   June 9, 2008    0714 UT

This particular strong sounding fireball was not caught on the Sentinel system but was captured on my secondary system. 
It made a very long scatter reflection and I include it in the archives for meteor researchers. It appears lower screen left bottom shooting downward.
NOTE :   Extremely large file!!


Movie 1 :  Ashcraft's video/radio forward scatter system capture, with two radios and dual channel sound:
  FB20080609_0714ut_Ashcraft.mp4    19.8  MB  2 minutes 59 seconds


Below:  Radio spectrogram of the time of the meteor.  61.250 MHz reception above white line, 83.250 MHz below white line.
Meteor above occurs during the 09:31 UT minute. All other dots are space dust particles.


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