{"id":5598,"date":"2014-03-24T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:31:09","slug":"st-thomas-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/st-thomas-fireball\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas Fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now you may have heard about the St. Thomas (Ontario) Fireball on Tuesday 2014 March 18th at 10:24pm.
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\nhttp:\/\/meteor.uwo.ca\/research\/fireball\/events\/st_thomas\/overview.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Seven all-sky cameras of Western’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) together with two cameras operated by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office located in Ohio and Pennsylvania recorded a bright fireball in the evening sky over the northern shore of Lake Erie. <\/p>\n

The best image came from Camera #8 (top photo) located in Aylmer Ontario
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\nThe operator of this camera is Arthur Oslach. We got to see short clips of his observatory as well on the news.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to us until after the event, our camera (#10 of the network)<\/a> also caught this event, some 400+km away (bottom photo).
\nIt was such a small event that it did not trigger on the software looking at our images, only when the big picture emerged did it come out in a data review.<\/p>\n

You can see it in the upper left corner of this image, in the south west (north is down, west is left).
\n400-430 km is not a bad range. The fireball started at about 72km high and ended at about 32km high.<\/p>\n

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\nBecause of the unprecidented number of cameras that recorded this event under great conditions, the possible meteorite fall area is relatively small and accurate.<\/p>\n

Videos can be found here
\nhttp:\/\/meteor.uwo.ca\/research\/fireball\/events\/st_thomas\/videos.html<\/a>
\nwith our local Yarker camera video here:
\nhttp:\/\/meteor.uwo.ca\/research\/fireball\/events\/st_thomas\/videos\/cam10_Yarker.avi<\/a><\/p>\n

Search teams were out on the weekend scouring the area.
\nThe fall map looks like this:<\/p>\n

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\nSt. Thomas is located south of London Ontario near the north shore of Lake Erie.<\/p>\n

These camera are low light video cameras with a GPS unit to add onto the frame a very accurate time per each frame. This allows very accurate orbital calculations and trajectory analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now you may have heard about the St. Thomas (Ontario) Fireball on Tuesday 2014 March 18th at 10:24pm. http:\/\/meteor.uwo.ca\/research\/fireball\/events\/st_thomas\/overview.html Seven all-sky cameras of Western’s Southern Ontario Meteor Network (SOMN) together with two cameras operated by NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office located in Ohio and Pennsylvania recorded a bright fireball in the evening sky over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}