USAF NEWS RELEASE

Date: June 8, 1998

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On Thursday 9 October, 1997, at 18:47:15 UT (1247 local), sensors
aboard the US Department of Defense satellites recorded the bright
flash of an apparent meteoroid disintegrating in the atmosphere.
Location of the flash was approximately 32.N, 106.W. Peak flash
intensity recorded (assuming a 6000K blackbody radiation model)
was 1.0E11 watts per steradian, corresponding to a visual
magnitude of -21.5. Total radiated energy, uusing the same 6000K BB
model, was 1.9E11 Joules.

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