USAF NEWS RELEASE

Date: July 21, 1997

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On 27 April, 1997 at 22:34:21 UT, sensors aboard U.S. Department of Defense

satellites recorded the bright flash of an apparent meteoroid
disintegration in the
atmosphere. The location of the flash was approximately 16.6S, 87.5E. Peak
flash
intensity recorded (assuming a 6000K blackbody radiation (BB) model) was
3.0E11
watts per steradian, corresponding to a visual magnitude of -22.7. Total
radiated
energy, using the same 6000K BB model, was 7.2 E11 joules.

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