Fireball Detection


On 5 December 1999,  infrared sensors aboard DOD satellites detected the impact of a 
meteoroid at 10:17:58 UTC about midway between Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama.
The object was first detected  at about 33.1 North Latitude, 85.9 West Longitude, 
at an altitude of approximately 74 km. It was traveling on a path from just east of 
north to just west of south, at an angle of about 55 from the horizontal. 
It was last tracked at an altitude of approximately 23km at 33.0 North Latitude, 
86.1 West Longitude.

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